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	Podcast:		Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
	Episode:		018: Premedication with Heidi Shafi
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:53:23
	Publish Date:		2016-09-29 04:01:51
	Description:		Many, many clinicians routinely order premedication of their patients with acetaminophen and diphenhydramine before transfusion, believing that using those medications will prevent allergic and febrile transfusion reactions, respectively. Maybe not! Dr. Heidi Shafi discusses the available data that says that this practice may not make sense.
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