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002: Platelet Refractoriness with Pat Kopko

Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast

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The Predictability of Immune vs. Non-Immune Vaccines

There's a predictability, and who is telling me the patient is refractory? I have an experienced hematology oncology doctor telling me their patients are refractory. They've got about an 80% chance of having HLA antibodies. Any other predictors are, if your patient is female and has ever been pregnant, she's got a risk of having Hla antibodies. If your patient has been transfused a lot, they have a risk ofhaving HLA antibody. But what I like to do is I like to go into the patient's chart and just look at when did we give them platelets, what kind of a bump are they having?"

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