Transfusion is the foremost publication in the world for new information regarding transfusion medicine. As the journal of the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, we report on the latest technical advances, discuss opposing viewpoints regarding controversial issues, and present key conference proceedings. In addition to blood banking and transfusion medicine topics, we present submissions concerning patient blood management, tissue transplantation and hematopoietic, cellular, and gene therapies.
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Articles
Improved outcomes and reduced costs associated with a health‐system–wide patient blood management program: a retrospective observational study in four major adult tertiary‐care hospitals
-  1347-1358
-  2 February 2017
Tranexamic acid in trauma: After 3 hours from injury, when is it safe and effective to use again?
-  S11-S13
-  10 March 2024
Management of moderate and severe traumatic brain injury
-  1529-1538
-  13 April 2019
A lower fibrinogen threshold does not lead to increased bleeding risk in patients receiving therapeutic plasma exchange: A prospective single‐center analysis
-  1076-1082
-  9 May 2024
Syncope prevention in blood donors: when to do what?
-  2399-2402
-  14 October 2016
Recent Issues
- Volume 65, Issue S1
A Supplement to TRANSFUSION The THOR Network 2025 Remote Damage Control Resuscitation Supplement
I-VII, S1-S332May 2025Guest Editor(s):
Mark H. Yazer, Sarah A. Watts, Christine M. Leeper
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Outcomes of traumatic hemorrhagic shock and the epidemiology of preventable death from injury
-  1423-1428
-  13 April 2019
Improved outcomes and reduced costs associated with a health‐system–wide patient blood management program: a retrospective observational study in four major adult tertiary‐care hospitals
-  1347-1358
-  2 February 2017
Comprehensive description of blood microbiome from healthy donors assessed by 16S targeted metagenomic sequencing
-  1138-1147
-  10 February 2016
Activity‐based costs of blood transfusions in surgical patients at four hospitals
-  753-765
-  25 March 2010
A consensus redefinition of transfusion‐related acute lung injury
-  2465-2476
-  16 April 2019