by Joe Chaffin | May 23, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
You work hard on your presentation. You practice, you make your slides “just so,” but it still falls flat! Kristine Krafts gives you her top tips to make sure that doesn’t happen next time! Awesome presentations don’t just happen. They take...
by Joe Chaffin | May 16, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Transfusion Practice |
A whole bunch of people SAYING something doesn’t automatically make it true! In fact, many things people believe about transfusion are just myths, and Kevin Land want to “bust” them for you! Over the years, little misunderstandings about things in...
by Joe Chaffin | May 13, 2016 | Blog, Immunohematology |
The Rh blood group system is spectacularly complex, while at the same time enormously important. Beginners trying to understand the system are often really confused by all the terminology that blood bankers use to describe the five main Rh antigens. We say things...
by Joe Chaffin | May 9, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Transfusion Practice |
Massive transfusion is a “hot-button” issue right now! Minh-Ha Tran walks us through what we know and don’t know, and how you can make massive transfusion better in your facility. There are few situations more stressful for transfusion services as...
by Joe Chaffin | May 2, 2016 | BBGuy Podcast, Blog, Blood Donation, Blood Products, Immunohematology, Transfusion Practice |
Dr. Chaffin opens the “Ask the BBGuy” mailbag to discuss D variants, Liquid Plasma, transfusion choices with warm autoantibodies, and directed donor unit management. See full discussion in written (blog) form below. This post is both a blog and a podcast!...