Anne Chenoweth gives us her top tips to make your next AABB assessment better! NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Every year, AABB assessors visit thousands of transfusion-related facilities around the world. Their...
Blood shortages and inventory problems occur all too often. Nancy Dunbar says we need a few simple adjustments to “the rules” about O-negative RBCs, AB plasma, and apheresis platelets. NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See...
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...
Venous thromboembolism is a major problem after surgery, but we may have ignored a major factor: Red blood cell transfusion! Dr. Ruchika Goel discusses her very important article in JAMA Surgery. NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See...
“Oh, no! There’s an isolated reaction that we can’t explain!” Brenda Grossman helps you understand what these reactions are, and what they might (or might not) become. Blood bankers everywhere can describe the frustration of trying to screen a...
