Blood Donors
The amount of intended dose of radiation that is the minimum delivered to the central portion of the container for a unit to be considered irradiated.
What is 25 Gy (2500cGy or rads)?
This phenomenon seen in blood bank testing is associated with gram-negative bacteremia seen with intestinal obstruction or colon/rectal carcinoma.
What is "acquired B" phenomenon?
This blood group functions as an urea transporter on the RBC surface.
What is Kidd?
The color of anti-A reagent used in blood typing.
What is blue?
The most common cause of transfusion-related fatality.
What is Transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO)?
The donation interval for a 2-unit red cell collection, a.k.a. a 'double red'
What is 16 weeks (112 days)?
This is the name for the phenotype/syndrome caused by mutation of the XK gene
What is McLeod?
The A or B gene locus is located here.
What is Chromosome 9?
The immunodominant (terminal) sugar on patients that are B blood type
What is D-galactose?
The #1 infectious risk from transfusion.
What is bacterial contamination?
The standard deferral period for donating blood due to pregnancy.
What is 6 weeks?
The most common genotype among Caucasians for Rh (think Fisher-Race/shorthand terminology).
What is R1r or DCe/dce?
Cryoprecipitate must contain Fibrinogen, Von Willebrand Factor, Factor 13, Fibronectin, and this _______.
What is Factor 8?
The most common cause of contamination of platelet products comes from this source?
What is skin flora bacteria (i.e., Staph and strep)?
The deferral period for an accidental needle stick.
What is 3 months?
What is CPDA-1?
What are both the Lewis gene and the Secretor gene?
This is the Anti-A1 lectin
What is Dolichos biflorus?
The etiology/pathophysiology of allergic transfusion reactions.
Type 1 hypersensitivity reaction
The maximum number of platelet donations a donor can make per year (per the FDA)
What is 24?
The measurement calculation used to ultimately define immune based platelet refractoriness by using the posttransfusion increment adjusted for the size of the patient and pre- and post-transfusion platelet counts.
What is the CCI or corrected count increment?
First choices for transfusion support for stem cell transplant patient in which the donor is A and the recipient's native blood type is B.
What are group O RBCs, group AB plasma and platelets?
Major and minor incompatibility (ABO mismatch and foreign antibody/isohemagglutinin)
Besides Bombay and Para-Bombay patients, this blood type (subtype) has the least amount of H antigen on its red blood cells.
What is A1B?
The amount of time you have to file a written report a transfusion reaction-related fatality to the FDA.
What is 7 days (after discovery)?