by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Reverse Grouping In ABO grouping, the testing of the patient’s serum or plasma against, at minimum, A1 and B reagent RBCs (the process is also known as “serum grouping” or the slang term “back typing”). The interpretation of this...
by Joe Chaffin | Apr 27, 2020 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
Hospital transfusion committees: Effective or a necessary evil? Carolyn Burns guides you to a better experience! NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Let’s be honest: Some hospital transfusion committees feel...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 22, 2016
Glossary Transfusion Medicine A field of medicine that is a hybrid of laboratory and clinical practices. Transfusion medicine physicians are pathologists, hematologists, anesthesiologists, and pediatricians that are experts in the science and practice of blood...
by Joe Chaffin | Feb 27, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products |
Despite disappointing recent studies, Ron Strauss thinks granulocyte concentrates still have an important role in Transfusion Medicine NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this episode has expired. See below for details. Granulocyte transfusions, in various forms,...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Partial D Phenotype The main Rh antigen (the one that determines whether a person is “Rh-positive” or “Rh-negative”) is known to blood bankers as the “D” antigen. A gene known as RHD on chromosome 1 codes for this large...
