by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary College of American Pathologists An Illinois-based international medical society composed primarily of pathologists (known widely by the acronym “CAP”). In transfusion medicine, interactions with CAP are primarily through accreditation and...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 11, 2016
Glossary Direct Exclusion In historical paternity testing, a direct exclusion occurred when a child expressed an antigen that he could not have inherited from the potential father or mother. An example: A group O man is the possible father of a child who is blood...
by Joe Chaffin | Feb 21, 2016
Glossary Agglutination The process in which free red blood cells are bound together by an antibody and reduced to a visible pellet when centrifuged, most typically in test tubes. In short, when an antibody binds to an RBC antigen then binds to an antigen on a second...
by Joe Chaffin | Jan 24, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
You can’t move forward until you see where you’ve been! Dr. Harvey Klein has seen massive changes in Transfusion Medicine, and he joins us to look at the past, present, and future! What do you ask someone whom you have admired for 20+ years? If you had the...
by Joe Chaffin | Feb 6, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
The 31st edition of AABB Standards was effective in April 2018. Fortunately, Pat Ooley, Chair of the BBTS Standards Committee, is here with the Top 5 changes you need to know! Every two years, like it or not, our friends at the AABB issue a brand-new version of their...
