CHEST’s new practice guidelines on transfusions in critically ill adults promote a more restrictive approach to RBC, FFP, and platelet transfusions.

This condition is called isolated diastolic hypotension. Unlike the rest of your body, which receives blood when your heart pumps, the muscles of your heart receive blood when your heart relaxes.

Phylogenetic analysis revealed that specimen Nos. 52 and 55 clustered with AKAV genotype Ia viruses isolated from Asia. The AKAV strain (55) neutralizing antibody exhibited a total positive rate of 43 ...