Massive transfusion is a “hot-button” issue right now! Minh-Ha Tran walks us through what we know and don’t know, and how you can make massive transfusion better in your facility. There are few situations more stressful for transfusion services as...
Dr. Chaffin opens the “Ask the BBGuy” mailbag to discuss D variants, Liquid Plasma, transfusion choices with warm autoantibodies, and directed donor unit management. See full discussion in written (blog) form below. This post is both a blog and a podcast!...
A few years ago, an intern called me and insisted that the blood bank staff was being uncooperative. This young physician stated that his attending physician had asked him to order a “Direct and Indirect Coombs,” and he had done so. The blood bank...
Connie Westhoff thinks it’s time to implement Rh genotyping for patients with “serologic weak D” results, and she’s here to tell you why! Dr. Connie Westhoff from the New York Blood Center joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss Rh genotyping in pregnant...
“Dr. Chaffin, I keep hearing about Zika virus on TV. It sounds scary, but I also heard that blood banks don’t test for Zika! How do blood centers decide which tests to perform? Can each center ‘do its own thing’ and choose which tests they use to detect...
