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Unit 1: Blood Collection

• Additional Standards for Human Blood and Blood Products FDA Title 21 Part 640
• Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
• Donor Infectious Disease Testing -nice illustrations of principle of testing
• FDA declines to lift ban on homosexual men as blood donors
• FDA's current thinking on Donor Deferral for Potential or Documented Infections with West Nile Virus October 2004
• Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing: The New Infectious Disease Testing Method For Donor Blood
• Nuceleic Acid Amplification Testing (NAT) for Hepatitis C April 17, 2001
• Scientists show that vCJD can be transmitted through blood transfusion
• Uniform Donor History Questionaire Developed by AABB, approved by FDA April 2004
• West Nile Virus Screening of Blood Donations and Transfusion-Associated Transmission CDC 2003

Unit 2: Blood and Blood Components

• Apheresis - Wikipedia
• Blood Clotting - Animation - only problem is they state platelets are fragments of white cells :(
• Demonstration of Inactivation of WNV and Other Flaviviruses- Pathogen Inactivation of Blood Components September 2003
• Freezing Red Cells - videos - Naval Blood Research Laboratory
• Hope for mass-produced lab blood
• New lease on shelf life for blood - increasing shelf life of platelets, March 2007
• Whole Blood And Components AABB FAQs

Unit 3: Immunology

Unit 4: Principles of Serological Testing in Immunohematology

Unit 5: Genetics

Unit 6: ABO and H Blood Groups

• Blood groups 'can be converted' - Scientists have developed a way of converting one blood group into another.
• ABO Blood Group System Wikipedia
• ABO/D Typing with Gel System
• ABO Blood Types
• Blood Type Calculator
• Blood Type Tutorial - The Biology Project
• Blood Typing Game Can you determine what type of blood to give to each patient? Administer the wrong type and the patient may perish.
• Enzymes convert all donor blood to group O
• Genetics of the Bombay Phenotype

Unit 7: Rh Blood Group System

• The Rhesus Site
• Clinical Management of Patients with a Weak D Phenotype
• Prenatal Determination of Fetal RhD Type by DNA Amplification
• The Rh blood group system: a review

Unit 8: Pretransfusion Compatibility Testing

• Anti Human Globulin Reagent Basic Concepts and Practices pdf
• Antibody Mediated Hemolysis nice graphics
• Coomb's Test - Wikipedia
• Direct Antiglobulin Test pdf document
• Principle of the Antiglobulin Test

  Pretransfusion Testing

• Antibody Screen with Gel System
• Gel Testing
• Welcome to the Handbook of Transfusion Medicine 2007
• Patient information: Blood donation and transfusion University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• Pretransfusion testing
• Nice list of sites providing basic information and overviews

  Transfusion Related Articles

• Best Practices for Reducing Transfusion Errors
• Blood Transfusion - Wikipedia
• Bloodless Medicine
• Bone Marrow Transplant Resources
• Early Blood Transfusions That Killed or Cured
• History of Blood Transfusion - PowerPoint
• Red Gold - A "must see" website
• A Short History of Blood Transfusion
• Transfusion and Auto-transfusion - excellent article addressing risks vs benefits of transfusion.
• Transfusion Associated Transmission of West Nile Virus - Arizona, 2004
• Transfusion Oversite Out of the Bag - CAP Article
• Transfusion Pathology-Case Study of a Transfusion Reaction

Unit 9: Other Blood Group Systems

Unit 10: Identification of Unexpected Antibodies

Unit 11: Neonatal and Obstetrical Transfusion Practice

• Collection, Separation, Enumeration and Cryopreservation of Umbilical Cord Blood Haematopoietic Stem Cells - An Experimental Study 2003
• Cord Blood FAQs - National Marrow Donor Program
• Cord Blood Registry - Click on "Watch a Cord Blood Collection"
• Liquid storage, shipment, and cryopreservation of cord blood 2004
• National Cord Blood Program , New York Blood Center
• UCLA Umbilical Cord Blood Bank
• Umbilical Cord Blood FAQ
• Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants May Have Significant Health Impact
• The Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Program - University of Minnesota

  HDN

• ABO Mother-fetus Incompatibility (good summary of causes, prevention, symptoms, treatment, and expectation--HealthCentral)
• Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus/Newborn
• Fetal cells in maternal blood: current and future perspectives
• Guidelines for Blood Grouping & Antibody Screening in the Antenatal & Perinatal Setting - 2004
  
  

  Rh Sensitization

• An Audit of anti-D sensitization in Yorkshire
• The History of Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn (HDN) [also known as Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn
• Preventing Rhesus D haemolytic disease of the newborn by giving anti-D immunoglobulin: are the guidelines being adequately followed?
• Prevention of Rh Alloimmunization September 2003
• The scientific basis of antenatal prophylaxis.

Unit 12: Adverse Effects of Blood Transfusions

Unit 13: Investigation of a Positive DAT and Immune Hemolysis

Unit 14: HLA and Transplantation Medicine

Unit 15: Quality Assurance in the Blood Bank

Miscellaneous Sites of Interest

• American Assoication of Blood Banks (AABB) - setting the standards for transfusion medicine
• American Red Cross Blood Services
• Armed Services Blood Program
• Apheresis News
• Blood-Compatible Nanoscale Materials Possible Using Heparin
• Jehovah's Witnesses Blood Ban Conception Deception
• Jehovah’s Witnesses for Reform On Blood
• Acronym Site - put in acronym and receive words it stands for
• Blood Book a "must see" sight!
• Xenotransplantation
• A Shrewd and Ethical Approach to Xenotransplantation
• Organ Donation

Quizzes

• Blood Bank Guy
• Blood Bank Quiz
• Quiz - Blood Bank and Haematology Collide

Please contact Terry Kotrla, MS, MT(ASCP)BB at kotrla@austincc.edu if any links do not work.

Last Update: February 16, 2011
Web Author: Terry Kotrla, MS, MT(ASCP)BB
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