🔵 [PAS 2026] - Should We Be Transfusing Premature Babies With Cord Blood Instead of Adult Blood?
The Incubator Channel · 24 Apr 2026 · 11 min
Summary
A podcast-style conversation recorded at PAS 2026 with neonatologist Dr Ravi Patel, who discusses the launch of NeoHeat, a neonatal haematology and transfusion medicine group, and the unanswered questions in neonatal transfusion, including iron supplementation and adherence to transfusion threshold guidelines. He also introduces the emerging concept of transfusing preterm infants with cord blood from healthy term newborns to replace adult haemoglobin with fetal haemoglobin.
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