This course presents the student with clinical conditions associated with transfusion medicine (with case studies), GVHD, transfusions reactions, cell-mediated alloimmunization, and the investigation of patient reactions to transfusion. These topics are followed by transfusion-transmitted diseases, infections, parasitic infections, followed by hemolytic disease of the newborn, all fetomaternal considerations and pathogenesis. The final sections of the course introduce the autoimmune hemolytic anemias and drug-induced hemolytic anemias including warm autoantibody, cold agglutinin syndrome, and PCH. The final topics deal with quality assurance, and regulatory issues, biosafety, irradiation, and introduce the various agencies, (i.e. AABB, FDA, BOB) whose standards regulate the blood banking industry.
Prerequisites
MLT115, MED115