Podcasts: Transfusion Medicine

Dr. Alexis Peedin and Dr. Melissa George discuss blood bank lookbacks, which occur in the rare instances when unsuitable blood products are unknowingly collected and transfused.

Yasmeen Butt, MD, FCAP, talks to her Mayo Clinic pathologist colleague Theresa Kinard, MD, FCAP, about why she decided to focus her pathology career in transfusion medicine, as well as the challenges and opportunities that she encounters in this area of laboratory medicine.

In 2019, the FDA updated requirements for bacterial mitigation strategies, which will result in significant changes to how platelets are manufactured, explains Alexis Peedin, MD, FCAP, in this CAPcast interview.