Your hospital’s blood management program may be perfect, but too late! Preoperative anemia treatment might be the “missing link.” Sure, you’ve got a Patient Blood Management program (You do, right? I hope so!). You’ve lowered your...
The Sue Johnson knowledge bomb continues as she shows us how to choose compatible blood products and TEST them to make sure they are compatible. Plus, Sue tackles real-world case examples! In episode 050CE, Sue Johnson took us through the first two steps of...
“Why are blood bankers so compulsive?” “What does that darn ‘3 day rule’ mean?” Sue Johnson answers these questions and more in part 1 of our interview on Pretransfusion Testing. NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode...
When a patient has too much of a GOOD thing, that can be a BAD thing! Dr. Jeff Winters explains what YOU need to know about therapeutic cytapheresis. NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Patients who have excess white...
Surgeries with no blood, for both Jehovah’s Witnesses and others? It’s not only possible, it’s happening right now, and Dr. Steve Frank from Johns Hopkins is here to help you understand how to do it! When we consider the idea of “bloodless...
