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Topics in Transfusion Medicine

The following are the topics addressed on these web pages. Do you need some hints as to how best to navigate through PowerPoint slides on the web? Click here if the answer is yes. It is desirable to use Microsoft Internet Explorer to view PowerPoint presentations. Other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox and Netscape, do not handle PowerPoint pages as well as Internet Explorer.

  1. Introduction to Basic Problem Solving was the topic of Jackie Stanley's presentation to the attendees at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the TABB in Nashville. Mrs. Stanley is the Problem Investigator, Senior Associate, Six Sigma Project Lead, American Red Cross. Read her PowerPoint presentation.
  2. Is it time for 16 year olds to be allowed to donate blood in Tennessee? Elizabeth Culler, M.D. discusses this topic in her ad hoc PowerPoint presentation delivered at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the TABB in Nashville.
  3. Claire Meena-Leist, M.D. at the 2007 Fall Meeting of TABB, using PowerPoint, presented the topic of Transfusion Complications with emphasis on TRALI. Also she showed a nice case of transfusion-transmitted babesiosis. Click here to see this, and communicate with Dr. Meena-Leist with any questions or comments.
  4. Case Studies and Patient Management is the title of the presentation made by Frances Scher and Joan Freeman at the 2006 Fall Meeting of the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks. You had to be there to hear and see the unique features used to enhance this PowerPoint show.
  5. At the 2006 fall meeting of the TABB, Trish Black and Jamie Schwitzgoebel described their experience with Maximizing Blood Inventories with ALYX. They discussed double red cell collection using the ALYX. Click the above link to see their animated PowerPoint presentation.
  6. At the 2007 spring meeting of the TABB, Richard J. Benjamin, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer of the American Red Cross gave a presentation entitled, "Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury: Time to Reduce the Risk." Click here to see this timely review of TRALI.
  7. Transfusion Therapy in Sickle Cell Disease was the title of the presentation given by Patricia Adams-Graves, MD to the Tennessee Association of Blood Banks at the 2006 Spring Meeting. Dr. Adams-Graves is the Director of the Diggs-Kraus Sickle Cell Center at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee.
  8. ISBT 128: Background and Features -It has been 2 years since the TABB heard an update of the progress in the implementation of ISBT 128. Now in at the 2007 Spring Meeting of the TABB Erwin Cabana uses PowerPoint to bring us up-to-date on this new bar coding system.
  9. At the 2007 Spring Meeting of the TABB Lisa Edwards, MT(ASCP)SBB, Blood Bank Supervisor, Baptist Hospital, Memphis, TN presented the topic entitled "Blood Bank Management of Special Needs Pediatric Patients."  Click here to view her PowerPoint presentation.
  10. Marilyn K. Moulds presented several interesting topics using PowerPoint at the 2006 Spring Meeting of TABB in Memphis. Warm autoantibodies cases studies, Monoclonal Reagents, and a TABB Case Study. Click on the topic of your choice to see the PowerPoint presentation.
  11. Unannounced assessments (inspections) of blood banks and transfusion services was the focus of 2 PowerPoint presentations given at the 2006 Spring Meeting. One by Laura Lee Woods. Click here to see her talk. The other by Joan Freeman who discussed the same subject from a different direction - the FISH philosophy. Click here to see her presentation.
  12. At the Spring Meeting 2006 of the TABB, Kelly Terry gave a nice PowerPoint presentation concerning the new continuing education (CE) requirements for medical laboratory professionals to renew or reinstate their licensure in the State of Tennessee. Click here to see it.

    TABB is indebted to the above presenters for allowing TABB to place their PowerPoint or PDF presentations on this website. However, the TABB does not necessarily endorse the views and opinions expressed by these presenters in these web pages.

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