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 12, 2016
Glossary Hemagglutination The process in which red blood cells suspended in a solution are reduced to a solid pellet by a red cell antibody. This term is synonymous to the shorter “agglutination.” Hemagglutination is the core reaction in blood banking...
by Joe Chaffin | May 30, 2017 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Donation |
“Eat your green veggies!” We’ve been telling blood donors things like that for decades, but is it really helpful? Dr. Jed Gorlin explains the recent, troubling data on iron and blood donors. In recent years, several excellent studies have...
by Joe Chaffin | Apr 2, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Transfusion Practice |
What do you do when a patient doesn’t respond to platelet transfusions? Pat Kopko shows us a clear pathway to quicker success! Dr. Pat Kopko from the University of California-San Diego talks with me about a practical approach to patients with platelet...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 12, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Transfusion Complications, Transfusion Practice |
CMV can cause BIG problems in certain susceptible transfusion recipients, but people disagree on prevention. Dr. John Roback has spent years at the heart of the debate, and he’s here to help! NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See...
