Journal Club: Transfusion of Prophylactic Antigen-Matching Red Blood Cells

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Event details

Speaker:

Hanadi AlJedani, MD
Transfusion Medicine Physician Trainee
Dalhousie University

Event objectives:
  • Transfusion dependent patients and transfusion protocols for transfusion-dependent patients
  • Discussion of practice of transfusion of antigen matching red blood cells
Reference:
  1. Y. Lin, A. Saskin, R. A. Wells, M. Lenis, A. Mamedov, J. Callum and R. Buckstein. Prophylactic RhCE and Kell antigen matching: impact on alloimmunization in transfusion-dependent patients with myelodysplastic syndromes. Vox Sanguinis (2017) 112, 79–86

Note: The session is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.