The 2023 AABB international guidelines for red blood cell transfusions: What is new?

Affiliations

• ¹ Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• ² AABB Clinical Transfusion Practice Committee, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ³ Department of Haematology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust; NHSBT, Oxford, UK.
• ⁴ Radcliffe Department of Medicine, Department of Transfusion Medicine, NHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Haematology, Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁸ Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ⁹ International Society of Blood Transfusion, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto and St Michael's Hospital-Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹¹ International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines, British Columbia, Canada.
• ¹² Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Golisano Children's Hospital, Rochester, New York, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Unit Transfusion Medicine (UTG), Sanquin Blood Bank, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Department Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁵ European Haematology Association, Transfusion-Specialized Working Group.
• ¹⁶ Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.