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,...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Malaria A very important and deadly parasitic infection seen in many countries around the world, caused by one of the following species of Plasmodium: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, P. malariae, and in a few areas, P. knowlesi. Malaria has huge public...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Blood Donors |
As my site name implies, and just in case you were wondering, Iām a guy (a dude, a male-type person, a gentleman-ish bloke, you get the picture). Perhaps because of my Y chromosome, there are some things that I seem to worry less about than does my beautiful bride...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Minipool A minipool is composed of samples from multiple blood donors and “pooling” them together in order to test multiple donors at the same time. This process is used in blood donor nucleic acid testing (NAT) for transfusion-transmitted...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Serum Grouping Serum grouping is one of the two required phases in determining the ABO type of an adult before transfusion. It is the currently favored term (at least, according to the AABB Technical Manual) for the process of confirming a person’s ABO...
