
028: Who DAT? with Sue Johnson
Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
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Do You Know How Many Blood Doners Have Positive Dates?
One percent of blood doners have a positive da t. They're perfectly healthy, right? Theirglons are fine. They're donating blood. No, so that's one of those you just say, what' the dat? I had to work atin. And then if we look at the patient population, different patient groups have been studied, butit's up to 15 % of patients with, for example, sicklsal or thalsemia in the chronic transfusion state. That doesn't seem important,. at least not that we can put ou kno definite attribution to causing trouble in the patient.
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