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International Forum on Transfusion Practices in Haematopoietic Stem‐Cell Transplantation: Summary

International Forum on Transfusion Practices in Haematopoietic Stem‐Cell Transplantation: Responses

Anaemia in elderly patients at discharge from intensive care and hospital

Low ferritin levels appear to be associated with worsened health in male repeat blood donors

Diary of Events

Blood donation in times of crisis: Early insight into the impact of COVID‐19 on blood donors and their motivation to donate across European countries

An international comparison of HIV prevalence and incidence in blood donors and general population: a BEST Collaborative study

Preservation of neutralizing antibody function in COVID‐19 convalescent plasma treated using a riboflavin and ultraviolet light‐based pathogen reduction technology

Inequality averse and compassionate blood donor: implication for interventions

Physician autonomy and patient rights: lessons from an enforced blood transfusion and the role of patient blood management

Universal pathogen reduction in blood components is a close perspective

COVID‐19 convalescent plasma therapy: hit fast, hit hard!

Activity‐based cost of platelet transfusions in medical and surgical inpatients at a US hospital

Preventing transfusion‐transmitted malaria in France

Lessons learned in the collection of convalescent plasma during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Altered strategy of prophylactic anti‐D administration in pregnancy to cover term and post‐term – a pilot study

Optimization of diagnostic strategy for non‐invasive cell‐free foetal RHD determination from maternal plasma

Red blood cell storage duration and peri‐operative outcomes in paediatric cardiac surgery

Diary of Events

International Forum on Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Faint and Pre‐faint Adverse Reactions in Whole Blood Donors: Responses

High‐titre anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 convalescent plasma donation after donors’ vaccination

Impact of pathogen reduction methods on immunological properties of the COVID‐19 convalescent plasma

Understanding the role of therapeutic plasma exchange in COVID‐19: preliminary guidance and practices

Exchange transfusions in severe Rh‐mediated alloimmune haemolytic disease of the foetus and newborn: a 20‐year overview on the incidence, associated risks and outcome

Association of ABO blood group with postoperative total bleeding volume in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty

Diary of Events

Blood supply sufficiency and safety management in Iran during the COVID‐19 outbreak

Elimination of pretransfusion RhD typing at Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan—30‐year experience (1988–2017)

Evaluation of the WHO global database on blood safety

10‐year analysis of human immunodeficiency virus incidence in first‐time and repeat donors in Brazil

Whole blood haemostatic function throughout a 28‐day cold storage period: an in vitro study

Registration errors among patients receiving blood transfusions: a national analysis from 2008 to 2017

28‐day thawed plasma maintains α2‐antiplasmin levels and inhibits tPA‐induced fibrinolysis

Development and evaluation of stem cell collection procedure diagrams to support the education and recruitment of committed stem cell donors

Clinical outcomes of cardiac surgery patients undergoing therapeutic plasma exchange for heparin‐induced thrombocytopenia

The protective effect of O blood type against SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Lack of association between ABO blood groups and susceptibility to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Issue Information

Re‐introducing whole blood for transfusion: considerations for blood providers

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2: implications for blood safety and sufficiency

Pharmacogenomics with red cells: a model to study protein variants of drug transporter genes

Anti‐A and SARS‐CoV‐2: an intriguing association

Transfusion profile, clinical characteristics, comorbidities and outcomes of 3014 hospitalized patients diagnosed with COVID‐19 in Brazil

Polycythaemia vera: molecular genetics, diagnostics and therapeutics

Frequency and timing of all‐cause deaths in visits involving suspected transfusion reactions, and the significance of cardiopulmonary disturbances

Application of unsupervised machine learning to identify areas of blood product wastage in transfusion medicine

MATRA‐A: A study on massive transfusion

Amlodipine as adjuvant therapy to current chelating agents for reducing iron overload in thalassaemia major: a systematic review, meta‐analysis and simulation of future studies

Assessing the inactivation capabilities of two commercially available platelet component pathogen inactivation systems: effectiveness at end of shelf life

ABO blood group and COVID‐19: a review on behalf of the ISBT COVID‐19 working group