A graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero possesses more than 25 years of medical experience and serves as a professor and vice chair for clinical research at Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York State. Dr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero’s expertise lies in cardiac anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and his interest in blood transfusions has resulted in the publication of multiple studies on the topic. Dr. Bennett-Guerrero coauthored a study titled, “No association between donor age and recipient outcomes: transfusion of plasma in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.” The study was published in the journal Transfusion in April 2016. The study was based on animal research that indicated a notable additional benefit of using blood from young donors in transfusions for recipients of more advanced age. The research suggested pairing these donors and recipients could reverse age-related changes affecting the older recipients, specifically neurological and cardiac concerns. Prompted by this evidence, the authors of the Transfusion study examined, through the lens of donor versus patient age, the results of patients who had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. In a review of more than 1,300 cases, however, the authors found that while patient mortality appeared to be linked to the amount of blood transfused, the age of the donor was not a significant factor.
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AuthorDr. Elliott Bennett-Guerrero is both an educator and a vice chairman at Stony Brook Medicine. Archives
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