Establishes standards for the warming of blood products, intravenous fluids, and contrast media, including device requirements, temperature limits, prohibited methods, monitoring obligations, and quality assurance for all patient populations including neonates.
Evidence-based standards for safe blood and blood component administration including patient blood management, informed consent, pre-transfusion assessment, product verification protocols, administration procedures, monitoring, adverse reaction recognition and management, and out-of-hospital transfusion requirements.