Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Neonates who are critically ill receive frequent blood transfusion during their stay in the neonatal unit
Blood components like packed red blood cells (PRBC), whole blood (WB), fresh frozen plasma (FFP), platelets and cryoprecipitate are used for transfusion depending on the clinical condition
For better calculation we considered pack volume of blood components as follows: 250 mL for Packed red blood cells (PRBC), 200 mL for Fresh frozen plasma (FFP), 350 mL for Whole blood (WB) and 50 mL for random donor platelet (RDP)
Summary
Neonates who are critically ill receive frequent blood transfusion during their stay in the neonatal unit. Neonates who are critically ill receive frequent blood transfusions during their stay in the neonatal unit. Almost all extremely preterm infants require at least one red blood cell (RBC) transfusion during their stay[1]. Reasons for transfusions can be 1) to replace acute loss of blood, 2) to replace chronic blood loss, 3) to stabilize the haemodynamic status i.e. to treat hypotension and 4) to reverse the chronic anaemia that is usually seen at 7-8 weeks of age in preterm infants[2]. Ill neonates receive frequent RBC transfusions of 5-10ml/kg[3]. Blood components like packed red blood cells (PRBC), whole blood (WB), fresh frozen plasma (FFP), platelets and cryoprecipitate are used for transfusion depending on the clinical condition. Blood transfusion has many inherent risks ranging from mismatched transfusion and transmission of infectious agents to graft versus host disease
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