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Dr. Joe Chaffin from the "Blood Bank Guy" website takes his light-hearted approach to a transfusion medicine interview show, discussing essential topics with educational leaders. You'll smile, have fun, and never EVER stop learning!
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103: Glaucomflecken! with Will and Kristin Flanary from 2023-08-11T10:21
Dr. Will Flanary is an ophthalmologist and stand-up comic who moonlights as the hilarious “Dr. Glaucomflecken” on social media. The Glaucomflecken videos have earned him an enormous worldwide fo...
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102CE: Learn to Speak "Reference Lab" with Jan Hamilton from 2023-06-23T09:10:59
Continuing Education episode! Understanding reference lab techniques like adsorption, elution, and enzymes feels like learning a new language! Jan Hamilton is her... Listen
101CE: Look Before You Leap with Rich Haspel from 2023-05-05T09:00
Continuing education episode! Advances in the practice of Transfusion Medicine happen regularly, and it can be difficult for both learners and those with more experience to keep up with the late...
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100CE: Pearls of Wisdom from 2023-03-29T09:03:46
CE episode! To celebrate the 100th episode of Blood Bank Guy Essentials, Dr. Chaffin invites multiple previous guests (plus one brand new one!) to share brief "Pearls of Wisdom" with you. Learne...
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099: Rh Immune Globulin (Teaching Episode) from 2023-02-01T10:04:58
Rh Immune Globulin prevents at-risk moms from making anti-D, but calculating proper dose can be challenging. In fact, numerous reports have suggested that we mess this up a lot! This episode is ...
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098CE: "Simply REDS" with Steve Kleinman and Cassandra Josephson from 2022-07-18T08:54:53
Continuing education episode! If a research project has been going on for over 30 years, you would think it's probably pretty good, right? Well, that's how long the REDS research project, sponso...
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097CE: Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH) with Steve Frank from 2022-06-29T09:00
Continuing education episode! For decades, medical personnel have been aware of the technique of “Acute Normovolemic Hemodilution (ANH),” the collection of blood immediately before surgery follo...
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096CE: Navigating Blood Shortages with Claudia Cohn from 2022-03-30T09:02:44
Continuing education episode! Blood shortages happen, but the one associated with COVID-19 is unique (and severe!). AABB Chief Medical Officer Dr. Claudia Cohn explains why and gives practical s...
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095CE: What is Liquid Plasma? with Chris Gresens from 2022-03-09T10:00:41
Continuing education episode! Plasma product names are confusing, but few are as misunderstood as Liquid Plasma. Dr. Chris Gresens explains why LP might be perfect for your transfusion service.<...
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094CE: Thalassemia Essentials with Sujit Sheth from 2022-03-02T10:00:11
Continuing education episode! When most United States-based healthcare providers think of a hemoglobinopathy, sickle cell disease is the first to come to mind. That is understandable, given how ...
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093CE: The Mighty MMA with Sandy Nance from 2021-10-13T09:02:01
Continuing education episode! Usually, red cell alloantibodies are simple (find an antibody, give antigen-negative blood), but occasionally, some of them don't follow the rules! "Antibodies of v...
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092: When Platelet Transfusion Might Not Be Wise with Ruchika Goel from 2021-10-06T09:00:09
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 and effective means to correct the problem of a patient...
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091: Wholly Whole Blood, the Sequel! with Mark Yazer from 2021-06-02T09:00
In 2017, Dr. Mark Yazer appeared on this podcast to discuss the burgeoning interest in “Low-titer Group O Whole Blood (LTOWB)” for massive transfusions, particularly in trauma settings. Since th...
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090CE: RHD Genotyping; We Can do Better! with Sue Johnson from 2021-05-19T09:00
Despite guidance in a 2015 publication from international experts in immunohematology and transfusion medicine, many clinicians and laboratorians have yet to integrate RHD genotyping in...
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089CE: The Transfused and the Breathless with Christine Cserti-Gazdewich from 2021-03-24T09:00
Transfusion reactions that involve the heart and/or lungs, especially TACO and TRALI, are responsible for more transfusion deaths than any other entity. In this interview, Dr. Cserti-Gazdewich f...
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088: Warm Autoantibody Best Practices with Alyssa Ziman and Meghan Delaney from 2021-01-27T10:16:10
Warm autoantibodies have a well-deserved reputation as tough challenges, creating unfamiliar situations for both clinical and laboratory staff. I interviewed the authors of two recent papers tha...
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087CE: Transfusion-transmitted Infections with Suchi Pandey from 2020-12-16T10:31:56
Blood transfusion is less likely to transmit infections today than ever. Through a combination of screening questions, donor testing, and direct treatment of blood products, the vast majority of...
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086CE: Scary Stories from the Transfusion Service with Mark Fung and Jay Hudgins from 2020-10-30T09:11:15
Every now and then, the routine practice of Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine gets intimidating. A difficult patient situation arises here, an impossible choice looms there. What do you do when...
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085CE: What to do When Everything is Incompatible with Jill Storry from 2020-06-17T09:33:06
Every now and then, when a transfusion service does a pretransfusion workup, they find that the patient's plasma is incompatible with EVERY other red cell! In other words, NOTHING is compatible!...
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084: COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma with Pampee Young and Ralph Vassallo from 2020-05-04T08:19:03
Special episode! In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, does convalescent plasma from recovered patients offer fresh hope for those who are critically ill? The medical leaders of the two largest...
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083CE: Building the Perfect Transfusion Committee with Carolyn Burns from 2020-04-27T09:00
Let’s be honest: Some hospital transfusion committee meetings feel like a waste of time! However, Dr. Carolyn Burns thinks transfusion committees are not hopeless! In this interview, she outline...
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082: COVID-19 and the Blood Supply with Louis Katz from 2020-03-17T05:33:34
In this emergency episode, recorded on March 16, 2020, I discuss actions blood collectors and hospitals should be thinking of now to preserve the US blood supply, as well as a look at the global...
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081CE: Top Ten Changes in the NEW AABB Standards with Rich Gammon from 2020-03-11T08:43:57
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 reci...
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080CE: Is This Donor "Safe?" with Mindy Goldman from 2020-02-27T10:12:40
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 s...
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079: Pioneering Pathogen Reduction with Ray Goodrich from 2020-01-30T10:41:24
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 ...
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078CE: Does That Patient REALLY Need Platelets? with Joe Sweeney from 2019-11-20T11:04:05
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. Plate...
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077CE: Implementing Pathogen-reduced Platelets with Pat Kopko from 2019-10-17T09:00
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 ...
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076: FDA Platelet Bacteria Guidance with Pat Kopko from 2019-10-11T10:58:15
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 transfus...
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075CE: What About Fibrinogen? with Melissa Cushing from 2019-08-14T09:00
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-recognize...
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074CE: Radioactive! with Chris Tormey from 2019-07-31T08:58:46
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 ...
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073: Implementing Trauma Whole Blood with David Oh and Mike Goodman from 2019-07-10T07:01
More and more trauma surgeons are asking their hospitals when they can get low-titer, cold-stored, group O whole blood ("trauma whole blood"). This product, discussed in depth in Listen
072CE: Neonatal Platelet Transfusion with Martha Sola-Visner from 2019-06-26T09:00
For decades, neonates (especially in the United States) have been given platelet transfusions at considerably higher platelet counts than thresholds used in adults. New data suggests, however, t...
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071: NEW Therapeutic Apheresis Guidelines with Nancy Dunbar from 2019-06-19T09:00
This month, the American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) released a new version of their epic document called “Guidelines on the Use of Therapeutic Apheresis in Clinical Practice” in the Journal of...
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070CE: Preventing Alloantibodies in Sickle Cell Disease with Stella Chou from 2019-06-05T09:00
Alloimmunization after red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is a huge challenge in the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Even when donors and patients are "matched," anti-Rh antibodies in pati...
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069CE: Preventing TRALI with Beth Shaz from 2019-05-22T09:00
Over the past 15 years, Transfusion-related Acute Lung Injury (TRALI) has caused in more deaths than any other complication. Since many cases are caused by antibodies in blood donors, blood coll...
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068: Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery with Pierre Tibi from 2019-05-13T09:00
Most blood bankers will tell you that cardiac surgery can lead to some of the most intense interactions between a transfusion service and an operating room. Over the decades, we have seen wide v...
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067CE: Wiser Blood Management Choices with Carolyn Burns from 2019-04-24T09:00
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. Carolyn Burns joins me to discuss "Five Things Patien...
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066: IgA Deficiency and Anaphylactic Reactions with Jerry Sandler from 2019-04-10T08:18:24
Here's what we thought we knew: IgA deficiency leads to anaphylactic transfusion reactions. Not so fast! Dr. Gerald Sandler from Georgetown University noticed something when he was in charge of ...
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065: Transfusion and Jehovah's Witnesses with Jed Gorlin from 2019-03-18T09:00
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse transfusion based on strong religious beliefs, but the "rules" can be confusing. Transfusion Medicine professionals are often called to help clinicians manage Witnesse...
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064CE: Granulocyte Transfusion with Ron Strauss from 2019-02-27T07:50:33
Granulocyte concentrate has been around for as long as apheresis platelets, but the product has come into and out of favor repeatedly over the years. While the most recent randomized trials were...
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063CE: Anti-CD47 Testing Interference with Connie Westhoff from 2019-02-06T10:03:23
Continuing education episode! Ever since the introduction of anti-CD38 (daratumumab, or DARA), blood bankers have been hearing about a new chemotherapy agent, anti-CD47, that would interfere far...
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062CE: Autologous and Directed Donation with Julie Karp from 2019-01-18T10:00
Continuing education episode! For patients who might need blood transfusion, the ideas of donating their own blood (“autologous donation”) and/or choosing their blood donor (“directed d...
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061CE: Better AABB Assessments with Anne Chenoweth from 2018-12-11T20:09:27
Continuing education episode! You know all about AABB Standards, but how do you make them practical? Anne Chenoweth gives great tips to make your next assessment better!
This epi...
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060CE: Transforming Inventory Management with Nancy Dunbar from 2018-11-13T09:47:09
Continuing education episode! 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!
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059: Antigen Matching for Future Moms with Meghan Delaney from 2018-10-29T09:00
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 for other Rh antigens? Meghan Delaney explains her study...
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058CE: Transfusion and Blood Clots with Ruchika Goel from 2018-10-03T09:00
Continuing education episode! Venous thromboembolism after surgery is a huge problem, and we may have underestimated one big contributing factor: Red cell transfusion! Ruchika Goel and ...
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057: Nonspecific Antibodies with Brenda Grossman from 2018-09-26T09:00
Isolated nonspecific reactions ("antibodies of undetermined specificity") on antibody workups can delay transfusions, but it may be impossible to determine whether or not they matter to the pati...
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056CE: Transfusion in Liver Disease with Jeannie Callum from 2018-09-04T09:00
Continuing education episode! Patients with liver disease often have basic coagulation laboratory values that seem AWFUL, and as a result, they receive almost 1 in every 5 blood products transfu...
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055CE: 2017 Critical Developments with Claudia Cohn and Melissa Cushing from 2018-08-17T09:00
Continuing education episode! "I never KNEW about that paper!" Most of us have felt that way when we miss some new Transfusion Medicine fact, especially early in our careers. In this interview, ...
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054: ABO Discrepancies with Nicole Draper from 2018-08-01T07:00
In the 2+ years I've been doing this podcast, more people have asked, "when are you doing ABO discrepancies?" than any other topic. Well, here you go! Let's learn the essentials with Dr. Nicole ...
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053CE: Alloimmunization is a BIG Word! with Chris Tormey from 2018-07-16T09:22:21
Continuing education episode! Alloimmunization has been a mystery for decades, but Chris Tormey has new answers for why patients make antibodies that we wish they didn't!
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052: Patient Blood Management: What Are You Missing? with Aryeh Shander from 2018-06-25T09:00
Most everyone is aware that PBM programs involve things like improving physician blood ordering practices by “tightening up” approved thresholds for transfusing red c...
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051: Product Choice and Compatibility Testing with Sue Johnson from 2018-06-12T07:30
In episode 050CE, Sue Johnson outlined sample requirements and antibody detection testing. Now, the knowledge bomb continues as she helps us understand how to choose compatible blood products an...
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050CE: Specimen Issues and Serologic Testing with Sue Johnson from 2018-04-27T10:29:27
Continuing education episode! To those less familiar with testing and processes in blood banks, the process of Pretransfusion Testing can feel confusing and intimidating. There are tons of rules...
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049CE: Red, White, and Yellow! with Jeff Winters from 2018-04-09T11:00:11
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. D...
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048: Bloodless Medicine? with Steve Frank from 2018-03-26T10:35:58
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, the...
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047CE: I See CMV! with John Roback from 2018-03-12T09:29:08
Continuing education episode! 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-saf...
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046: Top 5 Changes in the NEW AABB Standards with Pat Ooley from 2018-02-06T09:17:32
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 “Stand...
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045: Past, Present,&Future with Harvey Klein from 2018-01-24T10:00
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 fasci...
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044CE: What I Wish I Knew! with Pat Kopko from 2018-01-08T10:43:44
Continuing education episode! 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 "essent...
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043CE: Practical Tips to Influence Transfusion Practice with Mark Fung from 2017-12-18T10:00
Continuing education episode! Everyone everywhere in transfusion medicine is talking about patient blood management! What is not often discussed, however, is just how to monitor practices, and w...
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042: Do Clinicians Know Transfusion Medicine? with Rich Haspel from 2017-12-11T10:00
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 m...
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041: Blood Donor Questions with Mary Townsend from 2017-11-27T10:00
During the 1980's and 90's, U.S. blood collectors asked more and more (and then MORE) questions of our volunteer blood donors, to the point of absurdity. Dr. Mary Townsend was an original (and c...
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040CE: Wholly Whole Blood with Mark Yazer from 2017-11-08T09:51:08
Continuing education episode! In the remote history of transfusion medicine, life was simple. We had exactly one product: Whole blood. Things changed, and for the last 50 years or so, we began t...
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039CE: Understanding Febrile Reactions with Christine Cserti-Gazdewich from 2017-10-06T09:07:38
Continuing education episode! Febrile nonhemolytic transfusion reactions get no respect! Clinicians think they are a nuisance, and so do most blood bankers! However, a recent paper from Dr. Chri...
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038: HDFN with Greg Denomme from 2017-09-05T08:00
Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn (HDFN) seems simple, but there are lots of pitfalls! Dr. Greg Denomme is your guide to HDFN clarity!
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037: How to Learn with Justin Kreuter from 2017-08-21T07:00
What if everything we know (or think we know) about learning is just wrong? Traditional, "sage on the stage" lectures don't foster long-term retention, nor does slogging through an article or bo...
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036: Group A Plasma in Trauma with Nancy Dunbar&Tait Stevens from 2017-08-07T07:00
New paradigms in trauma transfusion require prompt delivery of plasma in increased amounts. This has led blood banks to start using group A plasma instead of AB in these emergency settings. But,...
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035: Why Give Platelets? with Rick Kaufman from 2017-07-24T07:48:39
Yes, platelets are tiny, but they can cause lots of problems and controversy! Dr. Rick Kaufman (lead author of the AABB Clinical Practice Guideline on platelet transfusion), joins the podcast to...
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034: Neonatal RBC Transfusion with Cassandra Josephson from 2017-07-11T06:45:25
Dr. Josephson returns to the podcast, and she is back in style! Blood bankers may struggle with the details of red blood cell transfusion to neonates, as there are important differences between ...
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033: Straight Talk with an ER Doc with Scott Weingart from 2017-06-19T07:00
Interactions between Blood Bank and Emergency Department staff in stressful times (like massive transfusions) can be difficult. Good news: A world-renowned ER physician says it doesn't have to b...
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032: Eat your Spinach! Donors and Iron with Jed Gorlin from 2017-05-30T07:21:34
"Have a steak! Eat your spinach!" Age-old advice from blood collectors to donors, but is it good enough? Jed Gorlin shows us why the old iron ways may not best!
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031: Why all Blood Bankers Should be on Twitter from 2017-05-15T07:00
Ever feel like you are missing something? If you aren't using Twitter to keep up with blood banking advancements, you should be! The 140 character platform is so useful for connecting with other...
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030: Antibodies in Sickle Cell with Eric Gehrie from 2017-04-10T07:04:29
One little amino acid makes all the difference in sickle cell disease! Dr. Eric Gehrie explains why sickle cell patients are so challenging for blood banks, specifically focusing on the huge pro...
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029: Molecular Testing with Meghan Delaney from 2017-03-20T08:29:23
Molecular (genetic) testing is everywhere in medicine today, and the blood bank is no exception! You don't have to be an expert geneticist to see how it all fits, however. Meghan Delane...
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028: Who DAT? with Sue Johnson from 2017-02-27T10:29:31
For such a simple test, the Direct Antiglobulin ("Coombs") Test confuses the heck out of most every blood bank student, to say nothing of many clinicians! Sue Johnson is here to guide us to bett...
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027: NAIT with Brian Curtis from 2017-02-13T08:57:46
Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT), the disease with many names, continues to confound blood bankers everywhere! The conversation goes like this: "This baby has a low platelet count...i...
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026: Treating TTP with Jeff Winters from 2017-01-23T08:12:08
Jeff Winters described the essentials of therapeutic apheresis in BBGuy Essentials 025. He is back today to address how to use those principles to treat Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, or "...
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025: Therapeutic Apheresis Essentials with Jeff Winters from 2017-01-16T09:26:59
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! Fortunat...
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024: Allergic Reactions with Will Savage from 2016-12-19T10:00
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 ba...
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023: RBC Transfusion Thresholds with Jeff Carson from 2016-12-12T08:31:29
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 lot...
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022: Age of Blood with Nancy Heddle from 2016-11-28T09:04:42
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 recipie...
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021: TACO with Garrett Booth from 2016-11-14T10:56:32
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 t...
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020: Pathogen Inactivation with Jeff McCullough from 2016-10-25T05:33:23
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 c...
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019: Cryoprecipitate with Joe Chaffin from 2016-10-19T08:30:41
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 "Essent...
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018: Premedication with Heidi Shafi from 2016-09-29T09:01:51
Many, many clinicians routinely order premedication of their patients with acetaminophen and diphenhydramine before transfusion, believing that using those medications will prevent allergic and ...
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017: Transfusion Reactions with Mark Fung from 2016-09-13T08:03:27
It's easy to push the panic button when a suspected transfusion reaction occurs! Blood bank doctors and lab scientists interact with clinical staff more than at any other time when dealing with ...
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016: Plasma Transfusion with Jeannie Callum from 2016-08-30T09:27:39
Plasma transfusion is not as easy as it sounds! Over half of transfusions have been shown to be unnecessary. Dr. Jeannie Callum from Toronto joins Dr. Chaffin for this extensive discussion desig...
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015: Zika Virus with Joe Chaffin from 2016-08-01T00:38:39
Talk of Zika virus has been all over the news for months, and especially so in the last few days of July 2016. Dr. Chaffin and co-host Dr. Heidi Shafi take a look at how the identification of lo...
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015: Zika Virus with Joe Chaffin from 2016-08-01T00:38:39
Talk of Zika virus has been all over the news for months, and especially so in the last few days of July 2016. Dr. Chaffin and co-host Dr. Heidi Shafi take a look at how the identification of lo...
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014: Patient Blood Management with Emily Volk from 2016-07-29T08:51:45
Dr. Emily Volk from the Baptist and Tenet Health Systems joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss Patient Blood Management (PBM). It seems like everyone today is talking about PBM, from hospital administrat...
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013: TA-GVHD with Joe Chaffin from 2016-07-15T12:12:30
Joined by my new "Ask the BBGuy" co-host, Dr. Heidi Shafi, I take a detailed look at Transfusion-associated Graft-vs-Host Disease (TA-GVHD). This transfusion complication is by far one of the mo...
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012: Pediatric Transfusion with Cassandra Josephson from 2016-06-24T08:23:28
In transfusion medicine, infants and children are NOT just "little adults!" Dr. Cassandra Josephson joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss 5 things you should know about pediatric transfusion today!
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011: Drug-induced Hemolysis with Pat Arndt from 2016-06-06T10:31:37
Drug-induced Immune Hemolytic Anemia challenges both established blood bankers and beginners alike! It's tough, but Pat Arndt from American Red Cross Southern California joins Dr. Chaffin in a c...
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010: Daratumumab Effect with Rick Kaufman from 2016-05-31T09:45:41
Since U.S. FDA approval of the multiple myeloma drug with the funny name, "daratumumab," in late 2015, blood bankers have had a lot to learn and still can be confused about the drug's effect on ...
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009: Awesome Presentations with Kristine Krafts from 2016-05-23T07:00
Dr. Kristine Krafts from the University of Minnesota and pathologystudent.com joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss her "Top Five Tips to Make Your Next Presentation Awesome!" Great presentations don't j...
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008: Mythbusters with Kevin Land from 2016-05-16T09:35:36
Dr. Kevin Land from Blood Systems International joins Dr. Chaffin for an interesting and sometimes hilarious look at common blood bank beliefs, including viral disease risk, O-negative blood use...
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007: Massive Transfusion with Minh-Ha Tran from 2016-05-09T09:18:36
Dr. Minh-Ha Tran from University of California Irvine joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss the "Who, Where, What, Why, When, and How of Massive Transfusion!" Dr. Tran offers tons of great tips, data, an...
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006: Ask the BBGuy Mailbag from 2016-05-02T08:00
Dr. Chaffin opens the "Ask the BBGuy" mailbag to discuss D variants, Liquid Plasma, transfusion choices when warm autoantibodies are present, and directed donor unit management.
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005: Rh Genotyping with Connie Westhoff from 2016-04-25T11:30:17
Dr. Connie Westhoff from the New York Blood Center outlines D variant types (weak and partial D in particular) and describes a way to manage pregnant ladies and transfusion recipients with this ...
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004: Transfusion Service Choices with Magali Fontaine from 2016-04-18T09:49:50
Dr. Magali Fontaine from the University of Maryland joins Joe Chaffin to discuss several challenging transfusion service issues and possible new solutions. Topics include CMV, platelet choices i...
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003: Septic Reactions with Anne Eder from 2016-04-11T09:05:27
Dr. Anne Eder, Chief Blood Services at the National Institutes of Health, joins Dr. Chaffin to discuss Septic Transfusion Reactions. In this episode, Dr. Eder discusses the ways that blood cente...
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002: Platelet Refractoriness with Pat Kopko from 2016-04-01T06:30
Dr. Pat Kopko from UC-San Diego talks with Joe Chaffin about a practical (and quick!) approach to patients refractory to platelet transfusion. She outlines a strategy to get maximum benefit to t...
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001: Whole Blood Platelets with Mark Yazer from 2016-03-30T18:54:48
Dr. Yazer helps explode some of the persistent misconceptions that blood bankers and clinicians have about whole blood-derived platelets. Currently, 90% or more of platelets transfused in the U....
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000: Joe Chaffin introduces BBGuy Essentials from 2016-03-30T03:33:02
This episode is an introduction to the vision and structure of the Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast, a new venture from Joe Chaffin, MD.
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