Introduction of principles of blood management to healthy donor bone marrow harvesting.
Soo-Zin Kim-WannerBeate LuxembourgAlexander H SchmidtRichard SchäferNadine MöllerEva HerbertCarolin PoppeChristiane HümmerMilica BunosErhard SeifriedHalvard BonigPublished in: Vox sanguinis (2020)
We managed to render BM aspiration safe for donors, notably completely avoiding the collection of autologous blood units and blood transfusions through iron management, establishment and curation of high-yield aspiration technique, limitation of collection volume to 1·5% of donor body weight and development of volume prediction algorithms for the requested cell dose.