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...
by Joe Chaffin | Feb 15, 2016
Glossary Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH) Also known to some as “isovolemic hemodilution,” ANH is, in short, collecting blood from a patient immediately before surgery (that’s the “acute” part), replacing the volume with IV fluid...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Thawed Plasma In simple terms, Thawed Plasma is simply a new name for a previously frozen plasma product that has been thawed for more than 24 hours and less than 5 days. I almost always refer to it as “Thawed Capital P Plasma” to distinguish it...
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...
