by Joe Chaffin | Mar 7, 2016
Glossary Autoadsorption Read the “Adsorption” definition first, if you have not already done so. Autoadsorption is an advanced blood banking technique that is most often useful in the workup of warm autoantibodies. Usually, warm autoantibodies react very...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Infectious Disease Testing A set of tests to screen for potential (“relevant,” to use FDA terminology) transfusion-transmitted diseases required for every allogeneic blood donor. These are the currently required tests (as of the FDA’s...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Operational Qualification A part of a validation protocol for a particular piece of equipment, abbreviated “OQ.” This is the part of validation that people associate most with the process. The point of OQ is to test the limits of the equipment...
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...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 21, 2016
Glossary Permanent Deferral A designation applied to a blood donor who, for one or more of a variety of reasons, will never be allowed to donate blood for someone else. This term and “indefinite deferral” are often confused because they seem so similar...
