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Safety Update
- Source :
- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To provide an update on key safety metrics after transfusion of convalescent plasma in hospitalized coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) patients, having previously demonstrated safety in 5000 hospitalized patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS: From April 3 to June 2, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration Expanded Access Program for COVID-19 convalescent plasma transfused a convenience sample of 20,000 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 convalescent plasma. RESULTS: The incidence of all serious adverse events was low; these included transfusion reactions (n=78
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Transfusion associated circulatory overload
business.industry
Septic shock
Mortality rate
Organ dysfunction
General Medicine
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
Intensive care unit
3. Good health
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
law
Expanded access
Internal medicine
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
medicine.symptom
Adverse effect
business
Transfusion-related acute lung injury
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00256196
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d27178ec62485317c91b2eeda5ff8610