Storage time of platelet concentrates and risk of a positive blood culture: a nationwide cohort study.

Aukje L KreugerKlaus RostgaardRutger A MiddelburgJean-Louis H KerkhoffsGustav EdgrenChristian ErikstrupOle B PedersenKjell TitlestadKaspar R NielsenSisse R OstrowskiMarianne VoldstedlundJohanna G van der BomHenrik UllumHenrik Hjalgrim

Published in: Transfusion (2017)

Storage of buffy coat-derived PLT concentrates in PAS-C up to 7 days seems safe regarding the risk of a positive blood culture. If anything, transfusion of a single old PLT concentrate may decrease this risk the following day.

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cardiac surgery