by Joe Chaffin | Dec 16, 2020 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Donation, Transfusion Complications |
Blood banks have numerous tools to keep blood safe from transfusion-transmitted infection. Suchi Pandey helps us understand them all! Blood transfusion is less likely to transmit infections today than ever. Through a combination of screening questions, donor testing,...
by Joe Chaffin | Jul 10, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Special Topic |
What’s cold is hot again! Here’s how one facility answered all the questions and implemented trauma whole blood in 2018. It feels like pretty much everyone is discussing cold-stored, low-titer, group O whole blood (LTOWB) today. Trauma surgeons hear about...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 16, 2020 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
This emergency episode (recorded March 16, 2020) outlines what blood banks, hospitals, and donors need to know about COVID-19 now. It is March 17, 2020, and the news is filled with information about COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus called...
by Joe Chaffin | Jun 6, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology |
Drugs that lead to immune red cell hemolysis can be super-sneaky and present as unexplained hemolysis! Pat Arndt outlines just how to “sleuth” out these challenging cases! Patricia Arndt, MT(ASCP)SBB from American Red Cross Southern California joins Dr....
by Joe Chaffin | Sep 26, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology |
“Oh, no! There’s an isolated reaction that we can’t explain!” Brenda Grossman helps you understand what these reactions are, and what they might (or might not) become. Blood bankers everywhere can describe the frustration of trying to screen a...