by Joe Chaffin | Feb 6, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology |
For the last few years, we’ve heard, “Anti-CD47 is coming, and it’s really going to mess up our testing!” Now it’s here, and we were right! Connie Westhoff explains how we can accurately test our patients’ blood. [1:10] How to get...
by Joe Chaffin | Jan 18, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Donors |
“I will only accept blood from my own veins or from my Aunt Margo! That’s it!” Autologous and directed blood donations happen much less often in 2019 than in the past, but Julie Karp is here to tell us if they should still happen at all! For patients...
by Joe Chaffin | Dec 12, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Continuing Education, Special Topic |
You know all about AABB Standards, but how do you make them practical? Anne Chenoweth gives us her top tips to make your next AABB assessment better! Every year, AABB assessors visit thousands of transfusion-related facilities around the world. Their job? Make sure...
by Joe Chaffin | Nov 13, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Continuing Education, Transfusion Practice |
Despite decreased blood use, blood shortages and inventory problems still occur all too often. Nancy Dunbar says we can make things better with a few simple adjustments to “the rules” about O-negative RBCs, AB plasma, and apheresis platelets. In many ways,...
by Joe Chaffin | Oct 29, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology, Transfusion Complications |
A 25-year-old, A negative female needs blood. She will receive RhD-negative RBCs, of course, but what about antigen matching for Kell, or for other Rh antigens? Meghan Delaney explains the “AMIGO Study.” Most of us are aware of how hemolytic disease of the...
