by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Quality Assurance Quality assurance (QA) is the management of the overall processes that make the best possible products. QA is responsible for evaluation of procedures, training, validation, and other functions that go into preparing a blood product for...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary Enzyme Immunoassay Commonly abbreviated “EIA,” this widely used laboratory technique also goes by the name of “Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay” (ELISA). Blood donor infectious disease screening relies heavily on EIA. These tests are...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary HTLV-associated Myelopathy “Commonly abbreviated “HAM”, and also known previously as “Tropical Spastic Paraparesis” (TSP), this neurological disorder is a rare complication of an infection with human T-cell lymphotropic viruses...
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 | Jan 18, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Donation |
“I will only accept blood from my own veins or from my Aunt Margo! That’s it!” Autologous and directed blood donations happen much less often in 2019 than in the past, but should they still happen at all? NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this...
