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blood banking (transfusion medicine)
A facility for collection, processing, analysis (including typing & serology), storage & distribution of blood & blood products.
- erythrocytes, platelets, plasma. cryoprecipitate & rarely whole blood may be used for transfusion [2]
Emergencies
1) group O erythrocytes can be transfused to anyone
2) group AB plasma & platelets can be transfused to anyone
3) Rh-positive patients can safely receive D-positive or D-negative blood, but Rh-negative patients must receive D-negative blood & platelets
Treatment parameters:
1) expect 5000-10,000/uL increase in platelet count for each unit of platelets transfused
2) an increase < 5000/uL is associated with alloimmunization
Related
blood
blood banking test (transfusion medicine test)
blood donation
blood products
blood transfusion
Specific
cord blood banking
umbilical cord blood banking
General
laboratory medicine (clinical pathology)
References
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 14,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2006
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 19
Board Basics. An Enhancement to MKSAP19.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2022