4) Anemia and Transfusion
Medicine(LO4)
(updated 5/13/21)
a. American Family
Physician - “B12
Deficiency and Management” September 15, 2017;
https://www.aafp.org/dam/brand/aafp/pubs/afp/issues/2017/0915/p384.pdf
“Anemia in Older Adults” October 1, 2018;
https://www.aafp.org/dam/brand/aafp/pubs/afp/issues/2018/1001/p437.pdf
“Hemolytic Anemia: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis” September
15, 2018;
https://www.aafp.org/dam/brand/aafp/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0915/p354.pdf
b. New England Journal
of Medicine -
“Microcytic Anemia” October 2, 2014 -
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1215361?articleTools=true
“Iron-Deficiency Anemia” May 7, 2015;
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1401038
“Aplastic Anemia” October 25, 2018 -
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1413485?articleTools=true
“Anemia of Inflammation” September 19, 2019
-
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra1804281?articleTools=true
c. Choosing
Wisely-“Blood Transfusions for Anemia in the Hospital” 2018
-
https://www.choosingwisely.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Blood-Transfusions-For-Anemia-In-The-Hospital-ASH.pdf
d. Up-To-Date
- “Indications and Hemoglobin
Thresholds for Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Adults”;
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/indications-and-hemoglobin-thresholds-for-red-blood-cell-transfusion-in-the-adult?search=transfusion&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150#H27123843
“Approach to the Patient with a Suspected Acute Transfusion
Reaction”;
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/approach-to-the-patient-with-a-suspected-acute-transfusion-reaction?search=transfusion&source=search_result&selectedTitle=5~150
“Approach to the Adult with Anemia”
https://www.uptodate.com/contents/approach-to-the-adult-with-anemia?search=anemia
in the
hospital&source=search_result&selectedTitle=1~150&usage_type=default&display_rank=1
(REQUIRED READING)