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cord-309739-3smgv1ma	Doyle, Andrew J	Blood Component Use in Critical Care in Patients with COVID‐19 Infection: A Single Centre Experience	2020-07-08		.txt	text/plain	1487	91	50	title: Blood Component Use in Critical Care in Patients with COVID‐19 Infection: A Single Centre Experience At present it has not been described whether there is an increased blood component requirement in patients with COVID-19 infection. Restrictive transfusion practice of red blood cells in critical care and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has similar survival outcomes to liberal transfusion practice (Herbert et al, 1999; Klein, 2013; Doyle et al, 2020) . Patients requiring ECMO have increased use of blood components particularly if they bleed (Doyle et al, 2020; Agerstrand, 2020) . Despite the increased demands of healthcare resources at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears that the infection itself does not cause a significant increase in blood component use in comparison to previous data from critical care (Chohan et al, 2003) . This is in comparison 0.46 units per day in patients not requiring ECMO in critical care prior to the COVID-19 outbreak (Chohan et al, 2003) .	./cache/cord-309739-3smgv1ma.txt	./txt/cord-309739-3smgv1ma.txt