081CE: Top Ten Changes in the NEW AABB Standards with Rich Gammon
The 32nd edition of AABB Standards became effective in April 2020. Rich Gammon, Chair of the BBTS Standards Committee, is here with the Top 10 changes you need to know! From blood donors to recipients...
11 Mar 202045min
080CE: Is This Donor "Safe?" with Mindy Goldman
Those who oversee blood collection organizations wrestle constantly with two questions: "How can I keep my blood donors safe?" and "How can I keep the recipients of the blood we are collecting safe?" ...
27 Feb 202053min
079: Pioneering Pathogen Reduction with Ray Goodrich
With the FDA's 2019 publication of their Final Guidance on how to prevent patients from receiving platelet products contaminated with bacteria, it finally feels like pathogen reduction technology is a...
30 Jan 202054min
078CE: Does That Patient REALLY Need Platelets? with Joe Sweeney
Far too many platelet transfusion decisions are made by evaluating a single laboratory value (the platelet count). Dr. Joe Sweeney believes we need more information to make better choices. Platelet tr...
20 Nov 201955min
077CE: Implementing Pathogen-reduced Platelets with Pat Kopko
On September 30, 2019, the United States Food and Drug Administration released the long awaited final guidance on bacterial risk control in platelets (see episode 076 for more details). One way that t...
17 Okt 201952min
076: FDA Platelet Bacteria Guidance with Pat Kopko
Over the past several years, the United States Food and Drug Administration has considered many proposals for how to decrease the risk that a vulnerable patient would receive a platelet transfusion co...
11 Okt 201942min
075CE: What About Fibrinogen? with Melissa Cushing
Are we ignoring the most important coagulation factor when transfusing bleeding patients? Melissa Cushing thinks fibrinogen's contribution to survival of bleeding patients may be under-recognized. She...
14 Aug 201957min
074CE: Radioactive! with Chris Tormey
Transfusion-associated Graft-versus-Host Disease (TA-GVHD) is a notoriously deadly but thankfully rare transfusion complication. Blood banks have used irradiation of cellular blood products for decade...
31 Jul 201958min
