by Joe Chaffin | Jul 18, 2022 | BBGuy Podcast, Continuing Education, Special Topic |
Continuing Education Episode! Continuing Education! The REDS research project has transformed transfusion medicine, and the REDS-IV-P phase co-chairs say the best is yet to come! If a research project has been going on for over 30 years, you would think it’s...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary Deconstruction A term used in blood donor testing to describe the process of resolving a reactive nucleic acid test (NAT) performed on multiple donors at the same time (a “pooled” or “mini-pooled” sample). Blood donor nucleic acid...
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 11, 2016
Glossary Extravascular Hemolysis In contrast to intravascular hemolysis, this is the type of hemolysis typically seen when IgG antibodies (instead of IgM) coat incompatible RBCs. Since IgG isn’t generally great at activating the complement system, these...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Whole Blood Whole blood, up until recently, was a rarely used product in modern blood banks. The product is just a unit of blood collected from a donor without further manipulation to remove plasma or platelets. In military trauma settings, surgeons have for...
