Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted Infections: Dilemmas

To make blood components and blood products safe, many safety measures are applied to avoid transfusion-transmitted infections. Defining a balanced safety policy is not easy, we face several dilemmas: How safe should blood be? Should we opt for maximal or optimal safety? Are perceived threats real a...

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Autor principal: Zaaijer, Hans L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312940
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00221
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description To make blood components and blood products safe, many safety measures are applied to avoid transfusion-transmitted infections. Defining a balanced safety policy is not easy, we face several dilemmas: How safe should blood be? Should we opt for maximal or optimal safety? Are perceived threats real and relevant? Should blood be clean while food, air, or mosquitoes are not? Is vCJD still a threat? It seems wise to discuss these issues more in the open.
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spelling pubmed-57329092018-01-08 Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted Infections: Dilemmas Zaaijer, Hans L. Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine To make blood components and blood products safe, many safety measures are applied to avoid transfusion-transmitted infections. Defining a balanced safety policy is not easy, we face several dilemmas: How safe should blood be? Should we opt for maximal or optimal safety? Are perceived threats real and relevant? Should blood be clean while food, air, or mosquitoes are not? Is vCJD still a threat? It seems wise to discuss these issues more in the open. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5732909/ /pubmed/29312940 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2017.00221 Text en Copyright © 2017 Zaaijer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732909/
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