Reading Assignments:
- Chapters 5-9: Blood Donation and Collection in Technical Manual, 16th Edition
- Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services, AABB, 25th Edition
Study Questions:
- Which of the following candidates is acceptable for donation?
- Saudi, visited Sudan 11 months ago as part of National Guard exchange
- Saudi former student lived in UK for 2 years from 1993-95
- Normotensive taking amlodipine and valsartan
- Psoriatic using Tegison
- Male adult using ibuprofen for lower back pain
- Female 4 weeks post-partum
- Husband of patient with recent onset of hepatitis B infection
- Male stopped taking ampicillin one week ago for acute pharyngitis
- Donor with WBC count 12000/cmm but otherwise normal
- Which of the following donors is suitable for autologous donation?
- Cataract surgery patient
- Well, but had gastroenteritis 3 days ago
- Pregnant with Hgb 11 g/dl
- CGL patient with Hgb 13 g/dl
- Hodgkin’s disease patient Hgb 12 for exploratory laparotomy
- Patient with rare antibody anti-Tja, Hgb 13 for cholecystecomy
- How do you handle the following events?
- Donor draw fills bag with bright red blood in 30 seconds
- Donor faints when needle is shown
- Lipemic serum during donor plateletpheresis session
- Donor with numbness and tingling of extremities during donor apheresis session
- How would you handle the following therapeutic phlebotomy requests?
- Hgb 22 g/dl, suspected polycythemia rubra vera
- Hgb 13, suspected hemochromatosis patient
- Hgb 16, renal failure patient post-erythropoietin treatment
- Unstable angina, Hgb 9
- What is the final volume of each of the following blood components?
- Whole blood
- Packed RBCs—state hematocrit as well
- Washed RBCs
- Irradiated packed cells
- Platelet pool—state number of platelets
- FFP
- Cryo-poor plasma
- Cryoprecipitate
- What are the outdates of each of the following components?
- Packed RBCs
- Platelet pool
- FFP frozen at -35C
- Granulocyte concentrate
- Which donor units are acceptable for transfusion?
- HBsAg negative, HBcAb positive, HBsAb > 20 IU/liter
- HCV Ab positive, RIBA-3 negative, HCV-RNA negative
- Syphilis positive, FTA-ABS negative
Revised:
29/8/20