Have you ever seen fat in a blood product? 👀🩸🍔 Let’s compare a normal bag of platelets with a lipemic bag of platelets, and yes, they can look very different. Platelets are transfused to prevent or treat bleeding in patients with low platelet counts or platelet dysfunction, especially in oncology patients, trauma, surgery, and bone marrow transplant settings. Lipemia refers to the presence of excess lipids in the plasma, which gives blood products a cloudy or milky appearance. This usually co
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Have you ever seen fat in a blood product? 👀🩸🍔 Let’s compare a normal bag of platelets with a lipemic bag of platelets, and yes, they can look very different. Platelets are transfused to prevent or treat bleeding in patients with low platelet counts or platelet dysfunction, especially in oncology patients, trauma, surgery, and bone marrow transplant settings. Lipemia refers to the presence of excess lipids in the plasma, which gives blood products a cloudy or milky appearance. This usually co
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