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Blood transfusions: When they're needed

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In an interview with dvm360®, Melissa Evans, LVT, CVT, VTS (EEC), described the most common instances that require using blood transfusions in veterinary medicine.

During a dvm360® interview at the 2021 Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference (ACVC), Melissa Evans, LVT, CVT, VTS(EEC), differentiated between blood transfusions and plasma transfusions, plus revealed the most common condition that prompts intervening with a blood transfusion.

View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.

Melissa Evans, LVT, CVT, VTS(EEC): For a blood transfusion, anemia is the No.1 thing that is going to make [veterinary professoinals] assume we need to do a blood transfusion. That can occur either because a patient is losing blood from a disease, its red blood cells aren't working the way they're supposed to, or it's had some sort of trauma and it's bleeding out.

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