The August Anesthesia & Analgesia featured article, “Perioperative Plasma in Addition to Red Blood Cell Transfusions Is Associated with Increased Venous Thromboembolism Risk Postoperatively” by Dr. Nadia Hensley examines plasma and red cell transfusions compared to red cell transfusions alone and the risk of venous thromboembolism among surgical and cardiovascular surgical patients on day of surgery. The database study of 48,580 patients showed those exposed to plasma + red cell transfusions was associated with increased 30-day mortality and VTE.

The section editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia, Dr. Shannon Farmer, interviewed Dr. Hensley regarding her featured article in this brief podcast: https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/Pages/podcastepisodes.aspx?podcastid=3