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Blood transfusion has for years been considered to have obvious clinical benefits and to be a relatively low-risk procedure. Not until the early 1980s did transfusion practices begin to come under systematic scrutiny. Initially, this trend was driven by concern about transfusion-related infection, particularly by human immunodeficiency virus, but advances in transfusion medicine have greatly decreased the risk of transmission of viruses by transfused blood. Now, other concerns — the effects of transfusion on the immune system, transfusion-related acute lung injury, and the age of transfused blood — drive the debate over transfusion practice and have led to methodical examinations . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH (H.L.C.); and the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick (J.L.C.).

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