Comprehensive Review of Blood Banking VIDEO + PDF

Comprehensive Review of Blood Banking

Comprehensive Review of Blood Banking features 17 state-of-the-art lectures taught by experts in blood management and transfusion medicine. It is available online or on disk and is a convenient way to earn CME credit and stay on top of the latest guidelines. The program is designed to advance the practice and standards of transfusion medicine and cellular therapies. It is the ideal home study course for training and practicing pathologists and cytopathologists looking to expand their knowledge of transfusion medicine, optimize patient/donor care and safety, and learn the proper protocols for Patient Blood Management. The course will help you to better:

• Describe the blood components obtained and processed at blood center collection facilities.
• Recognize the clinically significant blood groups and how to test for their presence (group, typing, antibody screen, antibody identification).
• Identify the many adverse reactions that can occur with blood transfusion.
• Apply guidelines for transfusion of the products using evidence-based criteria.
• Discuss blood components, how they are collected, processed and used appropriately.
• Apply the most updated knowledge and molecular techniques in daily practice.

Discover New Guidelines

A clinically based review, this Comprehensive Review of Blood Banking provides a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Available online, it provides access to unbiased, evidence-based content and case-based reviews so that you may expand your knowledge of this critical sub-specialty. This activity meets the American Board of Pathology’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements for Part II (CME and SAMs) Lifelong Learning and self assessment.
 

• Selection and Screening of Donors – Jay Menitove, MD
• Product Modification (irrad, LR, frozen, washed) – Jay Menitove, MD
• Adverse Reactions – Jay Menitove, MD
• ABO Rh – Deanne Stephens, MT (ASCP) SBB
• Minor Blood Groups – Bernadette Graves, MT (ASCP) SBB
• Antibody ID and Screen – Gina Folk, BS, MLS (ASCP) SBB
• Red Cells and Related Products – Lowell Tilzer, MD, PhD
• Therapeutic Apheresis – Lowell Tilzer, MD, PhD
• Plasma Transfusion – Aryeh Shander, MD
• Platelet Transfusion – Ira A. Shulman, MD
• Special Transfusions (HIV, neonatal, autoimmune) – Paul Ness, MD
• Preoperative Blood Management – Elora Thorpe, RN, MSN
• Perioperative Blood Management – Jerod Grove, MD
• Massive Transfusion Protocol – Jerod Grove, MD
• Coag Factor Concentrates – Brian Wicklund, MDCM, MPH
• Patient Blood Management – Ky Stoltzfus, MD
• Dosing Rh Immune Globulin for Rh Immunoprophylaxis – S. Gerald Sandler, MD, FACP, FCAP

• Accreditation

  Oakstone Publishing, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

  Designation

  Oakstone Publishing, LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  Date of Original Release: August 1, 2015
  Date Credits Expire: August 1, 2018

  CME credit is awarded upon successful completion of a course evaluation and post-test.

  This activity meets the American Board of Pathology’s Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements for Part II (CME and SAMs) Lifelong Learning and self assessment.

  Learning Objectives

  At the conclusion of this CME activity, you will be better able to:

• Describe the blood components obtained and processed at blood center collection facilities
• Recognize the clinically significant blood groups and how to test for their presence (group, typing, antibody screen, antibody identification)
• Identify the many adverse reactions that can occur with blood transfusion
• Apply guidelines for transfusion of the products using evidence-based criteria
• Discuss blood components, how they are collected, processed and used appropriately
• Apply the most updated knowledge and molecular techniques in daily practice

• Intended Audience

  Pathology residents, practicing pathologists for re-certification (clinical pathology boards or transfusion medicine subspecialty boards).