Lab Area:  Immunohematology (ASCP's Blood Banking)

  ► EXPIRES on:  Jan. 31, 2021

This course meets the following RENEWAL requirements:  

• Florida’s 1-hour minimum requirement
• ASCP’s  2-points minimum requirement 
• Other national and/or state license needs

This course includes contributing factors suggested for a higher rate of alloimmunization in SCD transfused patients, the most common antibody found in the study subjects, the percentage of RBC antibodies against the Rh system found, and the practice that has become the standard of care in several institutions for reducing the risk of alloimmunization.    

Article used:  “Lifetime risk and characterization of red blood cell alloimmunization in chronically transfused patients with sickle cell disease”, by Woldie, et al, in IJBTI (International Journal of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology), 2015  (9 pages).  © 2015 Woldie, et al. This article is distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original author(s) and original publisher are properly credited. Please see the copyright policy on the journal website for more information.

Total of 2-hours / 2-points in:

• Immunohematology (ASCP's Blood Banking)

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 ►  Entire  PACKAGE  includes:  

       Reading  Material (article or text book)  +  Quiz  Booklet  +  1  "WORK"  Sheet 

 ► "WORK"  Sheet  includes:  1  "WORK"  Sheet  ONLY;

       Quiz (questions) can be ordered separately, if needed.