by Joe Chaffin | Feb 6, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
The 31st edition of AABB StandardsΒ was effective in April 2018. Fortunately, Pat Ooley, Chair of the BBTS Standards Committee, is here with the Top 5 changes you need to know! Every two years, like it or not, our friends at the AABB issue a brand-new version of their...
by Joe Chaffin | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Immunohematology |
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...
by Joe Chaffin | Jul 1, 2016 | Blog, Blood Products |
If youβve been anywhere near a transfusion service, or ordered blood components from one, you know that granulocyte products are special. Along with looking different (imagine a platelet bag, but a cloudier, bloodier one) and being transfused differently (within 24...
by Joe Chaffin | May 23, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
You work hard on your presentation. You practice, you make your slides “just so,” but it still falls flat! Kristine Krafts gives you her top tips to make sure that doesn’t happen next time! Awesome presentations don’t just happen. They take...
by Joe Chaffin | May 5, 2023 | BBGuy Podcast, Continuing Education, Special Topic, Transfusion Practice |
Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! “New evidence” comes at us fast in Transfusion Medicine. Rich Haspel says, “let’s look before we leap!” Advances in the practice of Transfusion Medicine happen regularly, and it can be...