025: Therapeutic Apheresis Essentials with Jeff Winters
It is very common for trainees and practitioners of Transfusion Medicine to have low levels of comfort and experience with therapeutic apheresis procedures. It just "feels" complicated! Fortunately fo...
16 Jan 201752min
024: Allergic Reactions with Will Savage
Dr. Will Savage from Harvard University joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss Allergic Transfusion Reactions (ATRs). Allergic reactions have become pretty widely known as "nuisance reactions" to blood bankers ...
19 Dec 20161h 3min
023: RBC Transfusion Thresholds with Jeff Carson
Dr. Jeff Carson is lead author of the 2016 AABB RBC Transfusion Threshold Guidelines published online in JAMA in October 2016. This article updates the 2012 AABB Guidelines, and incorporates lots of n...
12 Dec 201655min
022: Age of Blood with Nancy Heddle
Red blood cells, in most countries, can be stored for up to 42 days. In the last ten years, there have been numerous observational studies suggesting that "older" blood may be harmful to recipients. I...
28 Nov 201659min
021: TACO with Garrett Booth
Despite having possibly the silliest acronym in the history of medicine (in Dr. Chaffin's opinion!), TACO is a very serious disease. It is responsible for the second-most number of deaths from transfu...
14 Nov 20161h 6min
020: Pathogen Inactivation with Jeff McCullough
Most would agree that today's transfusions are really safe from potential infectious disease transmission. There are still a few situations that worry blood bankers, like the risk of bacterial contami...
25 Okt 20161h 4min
019: Cryoprecipitate with Joe Chaffin
Cryoprecipitate is easily the most misunderstood blood product, and lots of confusion surrounds it (not just among clinical folks!). Dr. Chaffin and co-host Dr. Heidi Shafi give you five "Essentials" ...
19 Okt 20161h 5min
018: Premedication with Heidi Shafi
Many, many clinicians routinely order premedication of their patients with acetaminophen and diphenhydramine before transfusion, believing that using those medications will prevent allergic and febril...
29 Sep 201653min
