To be fair, transfused blood is always a risk for blood clots (news.weill.cornell.edu). The real question is whether the baby needed the blood.
Patients who receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusions before, during or immediately after surgery are twice as likely to develop life-threatening, postoperative blood clots as those who don’t undergo RBC transfusions
To be fair, transfused blood is always a [risk for blood clots](https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2018/06/red-blood-cell-transfusions-double-the-odds-of-blood-clots-after-surgery). The real question is whether the baby needed the blood.
>Patients who receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusions before, during or immediately after surgery are twice as likely to develop life-threatening, postoperative blood clots as those who don’t undergo RBC transfusions
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