105CE: What's So Scary About Obstetric Hemorrhage? with Kerry O'Brien
This episode explores the recognition and management of obstetric hemorrhage, with a focus on real-world, high-stakes scenarios that can evo...
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Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
Biweekly interviews and mailbags from Joe Chaffin, MD, the "Blood Bank Guy"
Episodes
20 of 107 episodes104: Essentials of Transfusion Support in HPC Transplant with Brian Adkins
Hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) transplant continues to be used in more and more situations. In this episode, Dr. Brian Adkins outlines...
103: Glaucomflecken! with Will and Kristin Flanary
Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist and stand-up comic who moonlights as the hilarious "Dr. Glaucomflecken" on social media. The Glaucomf...
102CE: Learn to Speak "Reference Lab" with Jan Hamilton
Continuing Education episode! Understanding reference lab techniques like adsorption, elution, and enzymes feels like learning a new languag...
101CE: Look Before You Leap with Rich Haspel
Continuing education episode! Advances in the practice of Transfusion Medicine happen regularly, and it can be difficult for both learners a...
100CE: Pearls of Wisdom
CE episode! To celebrate the 100th episode of Blood Bank Guy Essentials, Dr. Chaffin invites multiple previous guests (plus one brand new on...
099: Rh Immune Globulin (Teaching Episode)
Rh Immune Globulin prevents at-risk moms from making anti-D, but calculating proper dose can be challenging. In fact, numerous reports have...
098CE: "Simply REDS" with Steve Kleinman and Cassandra Josephson
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...
097CE: Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH) with Steve Frank
Continuing education episode! For decades, medical personnel have been aware of the technique of "Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH)," th...
096CE: Navigating Blood Shortages with Claudia Cohn
Continuing education episode! Blood shortages happen, but the one associated with COVID-19 is unique (and severe!). AABB Chief Medical Offic...
095CE: What is Liquid Plasma? with Chris Gresens
Continuing education episode! Plasma product names are confusing, but few are as misunderstood as Liquid Plasma. Dr. Chris Gresens explains...
094CE: Thalassemia Essentials with Sujit Sheth
Continuing education episode! When most United States-based healthcare providers think of a hemoglobinopathy, sickle cell disease is the fir...
093CE: The Mighty MMA with Sandy Nance
Continuing education episode! Usually, red cell alloantibodies are simple (find an antibody, give antigen-negative blood), but occasionally,...
092: When Platelet Transfusion Might Not Be Wise with Ruchika Goel
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...
091: Wholly Whole Blood, the Sequel! with Mark Yazer
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...
090CE: RHD Genotyping; We Can do Better! with Sue Johnson
Despite guidance in a 2015 publication from international experts in immunohematology and transfusion medicine, many clinicians and laborato...
089CE: The Transfused and the Breathless with Christine Cserti-Gazdewich
Transfusion reactions that involve the heart and/or lungs, especially TACO and TRALI, are responsible for more transfusion deaths than any o...
088: Warm Autoantibody Best Practices with Alyssa Ziman and Meghan Delaney
Warm autoantibodies have a well-deserved reputation as tough challenges, creating unfamiliar situations for both clinical and laboratory sta...
087CE: Transfusion-transmitted Infections with Suchi Pandey
Blood transfusion is less likely to transmit infections today than ever. Through a combination of screening questions, donor testing, and di...
086CE: Scary Stories from the Transfusion Service with Mark Fung and Jay Hudgins
Every now and then, the routine practice of Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine gets intimidating. A difficult patient situation arises here,...