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#105 Sickle Cell: 5 Pearls Segment

Core IM | Internal Medicine Podcast

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Transfusion

If you're transfusing someone because they're very anemic, as theyave any blast crisis, or they're not making red sels reason, then that's a simple transfusion. If you're treating an acute chest indrom the practicality of trying to get enough am normal red cells in the circulation without having a huge rise in the hematicret and a huge increase rom viscosity, it makes sense to exchange people. So i gess, how do i know when to reach for simple versus exchange transfusion?

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