by Joe Chaffin | Jan 27, 2021 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology |
Warm autoantibodies can be tough challenges. Two physician experts share some best practices to help guide your practices. Patients with warm autoantibodies always seem to appear at the worst times! To those of us working in blood banks, navigating the path from...
by Joe Chaffin | May 15, 2017 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
If you’ve ever found yourself missing out on a new bit of Transfusion Medicine news, you might want to start using a tool that is becoming indispensable! Yes, it’s Twitter! Twitter, obviously, is not new. The “microblogging” platform has gone...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Traveler To the FDA, a “traveler” is someone who is in an area for “more than 24 hours to less than 5 years” (as defined in the 2013 FDA malaria guidance). It seems weird that a blood bank web site would be defining the word...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 7, 2016
Glossary Allele A genetic term that means “an alternate form of a gene.” Alleles account for genetic variation, and alleles of a gene are present at a defined location (“locus”) on a particular chromosome. For example, the ABO gene locus has...
by Joe Chaffin | Jun 2, 2021 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Transfusion Practice |
What’s new with Low-titer Group O Whole Blood? Dr. Mark Yazer returns to give us the latest. In 2017, Dr. Mark Yazer appeared on this podcast to discuss the burgeoning interest in “Low-titer Group O Whole Blood (LTOWB)” for massive transfusions,...
