Blood transfusions remain common practice in the critical care and surgical settings. Several studies reported that transfusions carry risks for transmission of infectious agents and immune suppression. The transfusion of allogenic blood products is a complex medical therapy relying on materials that are often available only in short supply and carry a number of substantial risks for the recipient.
Perhaps the most feared complication of transfusion is the transmission of infectious diseases. According to your clinical practice, do allogenic blood transfusion cause infection?
