title: AAGBI guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives 2016.
abstract: Blood transfusion can be life-saving. Anaesthetists regularly request and administer blood components to their patients. All anaesthetists must be familiar with indications and appropriate use of blood and blood components and their alternatives, but close liaison with haematology specialists and their local blood sciences laboratory is encouraged. Considerable changes in approaches to optimal use of blood components, together with the use of alternative products, have become apparent over the past decade, leading to a need to update previous guidelines and adapt them for the use of anaesthetists working throughout the hospital system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.affiliation: Centre for Trauma Sciences, Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Brohi
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Collis
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospital Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gill
authors.affiliation: The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: McSporran
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moor
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rao Baikady
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shinde
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stanworth
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology; D016913:Blood Component Transfusion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D012955:Societies, Medical; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: FFP indications; anaemia and coagulation; blood crossmatch; major haemorrhage; transfusion