Author: Richard A. McPherson, MD, MSc, et al. Publisher: Elsevier Date Published: 2017 Pages: 18 Cover Type: Soft Cover Expiration Date: 12/31/2020
You may use this course to earn continuing education contact hours through December 31, 2020. This course meets the Florida one-hour specialty requirement in immunohematology and blood bank/donor screening. For those certified by ASCP this course provides two contact hours in immunohematology.
This course is based on Chapter 36: “Transfusion Medicine,” pages 735-750, in Henry’s Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 23rd Edition.
Topics include blood collection, blood component manufacture, selection of blood components, pretransfusion testing, transfusion administration, blood component therapy, and transfusion reactions.