by Joe Chaffin | Sep 11, 2024 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Special Topic, Transplant |
Supporting HPC transplant patients can be challenging and confusing to learners. More and more patients are undergoing hematopoietic progenitor cell transplant (aka, “hematopoietic stem cell transplant”) for a wide variety of conditions and diseases....
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...
by Joe Chaffin | Oct 24, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products |
Transfusions are very safe, but is there a way to get rid of the remaining potential “bugs in the bag?” Well, yes, but pathogen inactivation is not yet fully implemented in the United States. Dr. Jeff McCullough explains. Most everyone would agree that...
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...
