049CE: Red, White, and Yellow! with Jeff Winters
Continuing education episode! When a patient has TOO MUCH of a good thing, transfusion medicine professionals must sometimes step in and assist in removing red cells, plasma, and/or platelets. Dr. Jef...
9 Apr 201857min
048: Bloodless Medicine? with Steve Frank
Major surgeries with no blood, for both Jehovah's Witnesses and others? Post-operative patients who don't need transfusion because of massive blood draws? These things are not only possible, they are ...
26 Mar 20181h 4min
047CE: I See CMV! with John Roback
Cytomegalovirus can cause all kinds of problems in susceptible transfusion recipients, but even an AABB Expert Panel couldn't say exactly how to make blood "CMV-safe!" John Roback was senior author th...
12 Mar 20181h 1min
046: Top 5 Changes in the NEW AABB Standards with Pat Ooley
Every two years, like it or not, our friends at the AABB issue a brand-new version of their Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services (though we usually just call it "Standards" for short). T...
6 Feb 20181h 6min
045: Past, Present, & Future with Harvey Klein
In his nearly 45 years at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Harvey Klein has been at the center of a mountain of uproars, crises, and changes in transfusion medicine. He's got tons of fascinating...
24 Jan 201859min
044CE: What I Wish I Knew! with Pat Kopko
I've known Dr. Pat Kopko, Director of Transfusion Medicine at UC San Diego, for over 30 years! For this episode, we decided to have a conversation about the "essential" things we wish we would have kn...
8 Jan 20181h 1min
043CE: Practical Tips to Influence Transfusion Practice with Mark Fung
Everyone everywhere in transfusion medicine is talking about patient blood management! What is not often discussed, however, is just how to monitor practices, and what we should do to get started or g...
18 Des 201759min
042: Do Clinicians Know Transfusion Medicine? with Rich Haspel
An 80 year old male with acute leukemia is getting a platelet transfusion, he begins to feel short of breath. The nurse overseeing the transfusion asks the hematology fellow, "What do you want me to d...
11 Des 201753min
