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Biweekly interviews and mailbags from Joe Chaffin, MD, the "Blood Bank Guy"
This episode explores the recognition and management of obstetric hemorrhage, with a focus on real-world, high-stakes scenarios that can evo...
Hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant continues to be used in more and more situations. In this episode, Dr. Brian Adkins outlines...
Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist and stand-up comic who moonlights as the hilarious "Dr. Glaucomflecken" on social media. The Glaucomf...
Continuing Education episode! Understanding reference lab techniques like adsorption, elution, and enzymes feels like learning a new languag...
Continuing education episode! Advances in the practice of Transfusion Medicine happen regularly, and it can be difficult for both learners a...
CE episode! To celebrate the 100th episode of Blood Bank Guy Essentials, Dr. Chaffin invites multiple previous guests (plus one brand new on...
Rh Immune Globulin prevents at-risk moms from making anti-D, but calculating proper dose can be challenging. In fact, numerous reports have...
Continuing education episode! If a research project has been going on for over 30 years, you would think it's probably pretty good, right? W...
Continuing education episode! For decades, medical personnel have been aware of the technique of "Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH)," th...
Continuing education episode! Blood shortages happen, but the one associated with COVID-19 is unique (and severe!). AABB Chief Medical Offic...
Continuing education episode! Plasma product names are confusing, but few are as misunderstood as Liquid Plasma. Dr. Chris Gresens explains...
Continuing education episode! When most United States-based healthcare providers think of a hemoglobinopathy, sickle cell disease is the fir...
Continuing education episode! Usually, red cell alloantibodies are simple (find an antibody, give antigen-negative blood), but occasionally,...
Platelets have been used to save the lives of patients with low platelet counts for decades. For the most part, they are considered a safe a...
In 2017, Dr. Mark Yazer appeared on this podcast to discuss the burgeoning interest in "Low-titer Group O Whole Blood (LTOWB)" for massive t...
Despite guidance in a 2015 publication from international experts in immunohematology and transfusion medicine, many clinicians and laborato...
Transfusion reactions that involve the heart and/or lungs, especially TACO and TRALI, are responsible for more transfusion deaths than any o...
Warm autoantibodies have a well-deserved reputation as tough challenges, creating unfamiliar situations for both clinical and laboratory sta...
Blood transfusion is less likely to transmit infections today than ever. Through a combination of screening questions, donor testing, and di...
Every now and then, the routine practice of Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine gets intimidating. A difficult patient situation arises here,...
Every now and then, when a transfusion service does a pretransfusion workup, they find that the patient's plasma is incompatible with EVERY...
Special episode! In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, does convalescent plasma from recovered patients offer fresh hope for those who are...
Let's be honest: Some hospital transfusion committee meetings feel like a waste of time! However, Dr. Carolyn Burns thinks transfusion commi...
In this emergency episode, recorded on March 16, 2020, I discuss actions blood collectors and hospitals should be thinking of now to preserv...
The 32nd edition of AABB Standards became effective in April 2020. Rich Gammon, Chair of the BBTS Standards Committee, is here with the Top...
Those who oversee blood collection organizations wrestle constantly with two questions: "How can I keep my blood donors safe?" and "How can...
With the FDA's 2019 publication of their Final Guidance on how to prevent patients from receiving platelet products contaminated with bacter...
Far too many platelet transfusion decisions are made by evaluating a single laboratory value (the platelet count). Dr. Joe Sweeney believes...
On September 30, 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration released the long awaited final guidance on bacterial risk control in...
Over the past several years, the United States Food and Drug Administration has considered many proposals for how to decrease the risk that...
Are we ignoring the most important coagulation factor when transfusing bleeding patients? Melissa Cushing thinks fibrinogen's contribution t...
Transfusion-associated Graft-versus-Host Disease (TA-GVHD) is a notoriously deadly but thankfully rare transfusion complication. Blood banks...
More and more trauma surgeons are asking their hospitals when they can get low-titer, cold-stored, group O whole blood ("trauma whole blood"...
For decades, neonates (especially in the United States) have been given platelet transfusions at considerably higher platelet counts than th...
This month, the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) released a new version of their epic document called "Guidelines on the Use of Therape...
Alloimmunization after red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is a huge challenge in the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Even when donors...
Over the past 15 years, Transfusion-related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) has caused in more deaths than any other complication. Since many case...
Most blood bankers will tell you that cardiac surgery can lead to some of the most intense interactions between a transfusion service and an...
It feels like everyone is talking about patient blood management. That's a GOOD thing, but does it really mean what they think it means? Dr....
Here's what we thought we knew: IgA deficiency leads to anaphylactic transfusion reactions. Not so fast! Dr. Gerald Sandler from Georgetown...
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse transfusion based on strong religious beliefs, but the "rules" can be confusing. Transfusion Medicine professiona...
Granulocyte concentrate has been around for as long as apheresis platelets, but the product has come into and out of favor repeatedly over t...
Ever since the introduction of anti-CD38 (daratumumab, or DARA), blood bankers have been hearing about a new chemotherapy agent, anti-CD47,...
For patients who might need blood transfusion, the ideas of donating their own blood ("autologous donation") and/or choosing their blood don...
You know all about AABB Standards , but how do you make them practical? Anne Chenoweth gives great tips to make your next assessment better!...
Nancy Dunbar says a few simple adjustments to "the rules" we learned long ago could reduce shortages of O-neg RBCs, AB plasma, and platelets...
A 25-year-old, A negative female needs blood. She will receive RhD-negative RBCs, of course, but what about antigen matching for Kell, or fo...
Venous thromboembolism after surgery is a huge problem, and we may have underestimated one big contributing factor: Red cell transfusion! Ru...
Isolated nonspecific reactions ("antibodies of undetermined specificity") on antibody workups can delay transfusions, but it may be impossib...
Patients with liver disease often have basic coagulation laboratory values that seem AWFUL, and as a result, they receive almost 1 in every...