Introduction

Critical Care Scenarios is the podcast where we use clinical cases, narrative storytelling, and expert guests to impact how critical care is practiced in the real world. This week Brandon Odo talks about transfusion medicine, also known as blood banking. We give patients blood, how does that work, what's it all about? So most of the blood that we give is donated. Perhaps you've donated blood in the US here, most of it is through the American Red Cross. They do certain screening to ensure that your blood is unlikely to have transmissible diseases.