Hold on to your units: Quality of red cell concentrates is only affected after multiple transient warming events
Jayme Kurach, Mackenzie Brandon‐Coatham, Nishaka William, Carly Olafson, Tracey R. Turner, Anika Tahsin Rahman, Behrouz Ehsani‐Moghaddam, Gwen Clarke, Jason P. Acker · 2026
Read Hold on to your units: Quality of red cell concentrates is only affected after multiple transient warming events by Jayme Kurach, Mackenzie Brandon‐Coatham, Nishaka William, Carly Olafson, Tracey R. Turner, Anika Tahsin Rahman, Behrouz Ehsani‐Moghaddam, Gwen Clarke, Jason P. Acker (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13250346.txt.
Description
Jayme Kurach and co-authors test how much accidental warming frozen red blood cell units can tolerate before their quality suffers. Frozen units can keep for decades, but freezer failures or routine handling sometimes warm them, and warmed units are often thrown away. The team applied three warming patterns: fast warming, slow holding at a warmer temperature, and a full thaw.
A single warming event of any type, and a single thaw, caused no significant quality loss after the units were processed and stored cold. Quality did drop after ten or more repeated fast or slow warmings. The authors suggest judging each unit on its own history rather than discarding automatically, with policy support for keeping sound units.
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| CREATOR | Jayme Kurach, Mackenzie Brandon‐Coatham, Nishaka William, Carly Olafson, Tracey R. Turner, Anika Tahsin Rahman, Behrouz Ehsani‐Moghaddam, Gwen Clarke, Jason P. Acker |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |