Reduction of fresh‐frozen plasma use through a daily survey and education program
- 6 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Transfusion
- Vol. 27 (3) , 226-227
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1537-2995.1987.27387235625.x
Abstract
In an attempt to reverse a tendency toward the inordinate use of fresh‐ frozen plasma (FFP), the Transfusion Committee in a large tertiary care hospital distributed guidelines based on those derived at a Consensus Development Conference at the National Institutes of Health in 1984. In addition, the use of FFP was surveyed daily and supplemented by a one‐ on‐one educational program for the attending and house staffs. In 2 years, these steps resulted in a 77 percent decrease in the number of units of FFP transfused.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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