Laura D. Stephens , Jeremy W. Jacobs , Brian D. Adkins , Garrett S. Booth
{"title":"Battle of the (Chat)Bots: Comparing Large Language Models to Practice Guidelines for Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prevention","authors":"Laura D. Stephens , Jeremy W. Jacobs , Brian D. Adkins , Garrett S. Booth","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150753","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Published guidelines and clinical practices vary when defining indications for irradiation of blood components for the prevention of transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease (TA-GVHD). This study assessed irradiation indication lists generated by multiple artificial intelligence (AI) programs, or chatbots, and compared them to 2020 British Society for Haematology (BSH) practice guidelines. Four chatbots (ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, Bard, and Bing Chat) were prompted to list the indications for irradiation to prevent TA-GVHD. Responses were graded for concordance with BSH guidelines. Chatbot response length, discrepancies, and omissions were noted. Chatbot responses differed, but all were relevant, short in length, generally more concordant than discordant with BSH guidelines, and roughly complete. They lacked several indications listed in BSH guidelines and notably differed in their irradiation eligibility criteria for fetuses and neonates. The chatbots variably listed erroneous indications for TA-GVHD prevention, such as patients receiving blood from a donor who is of a different race or ethnicity. This study demonstrates the potential use of generative AI for transfusion medicine and hematology topics but underscores the risk of chatbot medical misinformation. Further study of risk factors for TA-GVHD, as well as the applications of chatbots in transfusion medicine and hematology, is warranted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 3","pages":"Article 150753"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10231462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle P. Zeller , Marissa Laureano , Aditi Khandelwal , Shannon J. Lane , Richard Haspel , Mark Fung , BEST Collaborative
{"title":"Optimizing Informed Consent Discussions: Developing a Narrative for Transfusion Consent","authors":"Michelle P. Zeller , Marissa Laureano , Aditi Khandelwal , Shannon J. Lane , Richard Haspel , Mark Fung , BEST Collaborative","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150757","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150757","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ensuring patient informed consent is a key tenet of modern medicine. Although transfusion of blood products is among the most common medical procedures performed in hospitalized patients, there is evidence that informed consent for transfusion is at times incomplete, poorly understood, hurried, and/or inaccurate. This study aimed to develop a narrative that can be used as a framework for practicing physicians and for educational purposes to optimize the process for obtaining informed consent for blood transfusion. The narrative was developed using a modified Delphi approach with 5 Rounds that included feedback from transfusion medicine (TM) experts, transfusion-provider physicians, and lay people. The surveys collected qualitative and quantitative data analyzed using thematic content analysis and descriptive statistics, respectively. Results from Rounds 1 and 2 generated a draft narrative and Rounds 3 to 5 informed further modifications. Round 1 included draft narrative scripts from 28 TM experts; thematic coding generated 97 topics. In round 2, 22/28 of the initial experts rated items identified from Round 1. Those with a content validity index (CVI) ≥ 0.8 were used by the authors to develop a narrative. In Round 3, 20/24 participants from Round 2 reviewed the narrative with 100% agreeing on the items included and 90% agreeing the flow was logical. In Round 4, 23 transfusion prescribers (non-TM physicians) reviewed the narrative for flow, manner, length, and usability; there was 83% agreement with the nonexclusion of important topics; 91% felt it would be effective for teaching trainees. Round 5 included 24 nonmedical laypeople of different demographics. Most participants (92%) thought that the script was appropriate in length and there were opportunities to ask questions. Participants could also identify the adverse transfusion reactions and understand that they could refuse the transfusion. A narrative for obtaining informed consent for blood transfusion was created through multiple rigorous iterations of review and feedback with both transfusion providers and the lay public. The narrative, developed for a specific clinical scenario, was well-received by medical and nonmedical participants and can be used, and modified, to help ensure patients understand the risks and benefits of blood transfusion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 3","pages":"Article 150757"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41154183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance of Femoral and Internal Jugular Venous Catheters for Collection and Transplantation of Peripheral Blood Stem Cells in Adults","authors":"Tatsanee Aiemsak, Jutarat Suriyachai, Wisakha Kaewprachum, Thachamon Sinsoongsud, Yupawan Iamborisut, Thanakrit Piyajaroenkij, Sulada Pukiat, Teeraya Puavilai, Pimjai Niparuck","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150752","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 3","pages":"Article 150752"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41160457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Richard L. Haspel , William H. Schneider , Sunitha Vege , Patricia A.R. Brunker
{"title":"Blood Group Serology and “Race”: Looking Back to Move Forward","authors":"Richard L. Haspel , William H. Schneider , Sunitha Vege , Patricia A.R. Brunker","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150749","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150749","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Less than a decade after the discovery of the ABO antigens as a Mendelian inherited trait, blood group antigen frequencies were first used to define racial groups. This approach, known as seroanthropology, was the basis for collecting large amounts of blood group frequency data in different populations and was also sometimes used for racist purposes. Ultimately, population geneticists used these data to disprove race as a biological construct. Through understanding the history of seroanthropology, and recognizing the harms of its lingering presence, healthcare providers can better practice race-conscious, as opposed to race-based, transfusion medicine.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 3","pages":"Article 150749"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41221161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and Scholarship in the 21st Century","authors":"Sunny Dzik , Michael Murphy , Rachel Garland","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 2","pages":"Article 150722"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9687753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Red Blood Cell Sublethal Damage: Hemocompatibility Is not the Absence of Hemolysis","authors":"Antony P. McNamee, Michael J. Simmonds","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Blood is a complex fluid owing to its two-phase suspension of formed cellular elements within a protein-rich plasma. Vital to its role in distributing nutrients throughout the circulatory system, the mechanical properties of blood – and particularly red blood cells (RBC)—primarily determine bulk flow characteristics and microcirculatory flux. Various factors impair the physical properties of RBC, including cellular senescence, many diseases, and exposure to mechanical forces. Indeed, the latter is increasingly relevant following the advent of modern life support, such as mechanical circulatory support (MCS), which induce unique interactions between blood and artificial environments that leave blood cells with the signature of aging, albeit accelerated, and crucially underlie various serious complications, including death. Accumulating evidence indicates that these complications appear to be associated with mechanical shear forces present within MCS that are not extreme enough to overtly rupture cells, yet may still induce “sublethal” injury and “fatigue” to vital blood constituents. Impaired RBC physical properties following elevated shear exposure—a hallmark of sublethal injury to blood—are notable and may explain, at least in part, systemic complications and premature mortality associated with MCS. Design of optimal next-generation MCS devices thus requires consideration of biocompatibility and blood-device interactions to minimize potential blood complications and promote clinical success. Presented herein is a contemporary understanding of “blood damage,” with emphasis on shear exposures that alter microrheological function but do not overtly destroy cells (ie, sublethal damage). Identification of key cellular factors perturbed by supraphysiological shear exposure are examined, offering potential pathways to enhance design of MCS and blood-contacting medical devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 2","pages":"Article 150723"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10043404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tori Lenet , Joseph Tropiano , Stephanie Skanes , Victoria Ivankovic , Michael Verret , Daniel I McIsaac , Alan Tinmouth , Stuart G Nicholls , Andrea M Patey , Dean A Fergusson , Guillaume Martel
{"title":"Understanding Intraoperative Transfusion Decision-Making Variability: A Qualitative Study","authors":"Tori Lenet , Joseph Tropiano , Stephanie Skanes , Victoria Ivankovic , Michael Verret , Daniel I McIsaac , Alan Tinmouth , Stuart G Nicholls , Andrea M Patey , Dean A Fergusson , Guillaume Martel","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150726","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.150726","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is evidence of significant intraoperative red blood cell (RBC) transfusion variability that cannot be explained by case-mix, and may reflect unwarranted transfusions. The objective was to explore the source of intraoperative RBC transfusion variability by eliciting the beliefs of anesthesiologists and surgeons that underlie transfusion decisions. Interviews based on the Theoretical Domains Framework were conducted to identify beliefs about intraoperative transfusion. Content analysis was performed to group statements into domains. Relevant domains were selected based on frequency of beliefs, perceived influence on transfusion, and the presence of conflicting beliefs within domains. Of the 28 transfusion experts recruited internationally (16 anesthesiologists, 12 surgeons), 24 (86%) were Canadian or American and 11 (39%) identified as female. Eight relevant domains were identified: (1) <em>Knowledge</em> (insufficient evidence to guide intraoperative transfusion), (2) <em>Social/professional role and identity</em> (surgeons/anesthesiologists share responsibility for transfusions), (3) <em>Beliefs about consequences</em> (concerns about morbidity of transfusion/anemia), (4) <em>Environmental context/resources</em> (transfusions influenced by type of surgery, local blood supply, cost of transfusion), (5) <em>Social influences</em> (institutional culture, judgment by peers, surgeon-anesthesiologist relationship, patient preference influencing transfusion decisions), (6) <em>Behavioral regulation</em> (need for intraoperative transfusion guidelines, usefulness of audits and educational sessions to guide transfusion), (7) <em>Nature of the behaviors</em> (overtransfusion remains commonplace, transfusion practice becoming more restrictive over time), and (8) <em>Memory, attention, and decision processes</em> (various patient and operative characteristics are incorporated into transfusion decisions). This study identified a range of factors underlying intraoperative transfusion decision-making and partly explain the variability in transfusion behavior. Targeted theory-informed behavior-change interventions derived from this work could help reduce intraoperative transfusion variability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 2","pages":"Article 150726"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9691791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Pioneers & Pathfinders: Canadian Surgeons and the Introduction of Blood Transfusion in War Surgery” [Transfus Med Rev 2008; 22: 77-86]","authors":"Pinkerton PH MD","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 2","pages":"Article 150724"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9633517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefan F. van Wonderen MD , Floor L.F. van Baarle MD , Sanne de Bruin MD, PhD , Anna L. Peters MD, PhD , Dirk de Korte PhD , Robin van Bruggen PhD , Alexander P.J. Vlaar MD, PhD
{"title":"Biotinylated Platelets: A Promising Labeling Technique?","authors":"Stefan F. van Wonderen MD , Floor L.F. van Baarle MD , Sanne de Bruin MD, PhD , Anna L. Peters MD, PhD , Dirk de Korte PhD , Robin van Bruggen PhD , Alexander P.J. Vlaar MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmrv.2023.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Labeling of platelets (PLTs) is essential for research purposes, in order to measure the recovery and survival of transfused PLTs in vivo. Biotinylation is a promising new alternative to the gold standard of radioactive labeling. This review highlights 4 key publications that provide significant insights into biotin-labeled PLTs (bioPLTs). Stohlawetz et al. established that transfusion of bioPLTs in human recipients is possible. De Bruin et al. developed a standardized, reproducible protocol for biotinylation of PLTs as a promising method to trace and isolate transfused PLTs in vivo, with reduced levels of PLT activation markers. Muret et al. developed a nonwashing biotin labeling method to implement in a blood bank environment. Finally, in a preclinical study, Ravanat et al. showed that different densities of biotin can be used to concurrently monitor multiple populations of human PLTs in the circulation of the same subject. These studies have made major contributions to the development of bioPLTs as a viable option for use in human research, and indicate that bioPLTs can be safely administered, preferably at a low density of biotin.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56081,"journal":{"name":"Transfusion Medicine Reviews","volume":"37 2","pages":"Article 150719"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9684420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}