by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Lookback A multistep process a blood establishment must complete as a response to a donor who is newly reactive for an infectious disease test. The whole idea behind lookback is to (guess what?) “look back” to find previously collected blood...
by Joe Chaffin | Jan 16, 2017 | BBGuy Podcast, Therapeutic Apheresis |
Therapeutic apheresis does not have to be scary! Jeff Winters helps us understand the essentials of this ever-expanding part of Transfusion Medicine. It is very common for trainees and practitioners of Transfusion Medicine to be uncomfortable with therapeutic...
by Joe Chaffin | Jul 10, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Special Topic |
What’s cold is hot again! Here’s how one facility answered all the questions and implemented trauma whole blood in 2018. It feels like pretty much everyone is discussing cold-stored, low-titer, group O whole blood (LTOWB) today. Trauma surgeons hear about...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 9, 2016
Glossary Check Cells An unofficial term for the antibody-coated red cells used as to perform required quality control for negative indirect or direct antiglobulin tests performed in test tubes (the cells are more formally known as “Coombs Control” cells or...
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...
