by Joe Chaffin | Mar 7, 2016
Glossary Antibody Screen More properly called the “antibody detection test,” the antibody screen (as most blood bank types call it) is a test used to demonstrate the presence or absence of “unexpected (non-ABO) antibodies.” You can think of it...
by Joe Chaffin | Oct 13, 2021 | BBGuy Podcast, Continuing Education, Immunohematology |
Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! Red cell antibodies should be simple, right? Not always, and the Mighty Monocyte Monolayer Assay may show the way! Usually, when a transfusion service or reference laboratory identifies a red cell antibody like...
by Joe Chaffin | May 2, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Blog, Blood Donation, Blood Products, Immunohematology, Transfusion Practice |
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!...
by Joe Chaffin | Jan 23, 2017 | BBGuy Podcast, Therapeutic Apheresis |
Jeff Winters returns to explain how to use therapeutic apheresis to treat Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP). Most people who listen to this podcast are involved in blood banking in one way or another. In general, blood bankers like to do things in an...
by Joe Chaffin | Sep 11, 2024 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Special Topic, Transplant |
Supporting HPC transplant patients can be challenging and confusing to learners. More and more patients are undergoing hematopoietic progenitor cell transplant (aka, “hematopoietic stem cell transplant”) for a wide variety of conditions and diseases....
