How do I encourage clinicians to transfuse mismatched blood to patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia in urgent situations?

From The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland. Address reprint requests to: Paul M. Ness MS, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 600 North Wolfe Street/Carnegie 667, Baltimore, MD 21287; e-mail: pness@jhmi.edu. Received for publication March 29, 2006; revision received April 3, 2006, and accepted April 3, 2006. The author is a consultant and a member of the Board of Directors of Northfield Laboratories, a company attempting to make blood substitutes. doi: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00990.x TRANSFUSION **;**:**-**. H O W D O I . . . ?