Transfusions and Platelet Refractoryness

Platelet refractoryness as they say is a whole specific transfusion medicine area of interest. You can try AB type specific platelets if you're having issues. You can start to try to match HLA types either kind of loosely or true matching like you do for bone marrow donation. The only other thing I want to touch on today and maybe we'll do another episode though is that we remain in a real shortage of blood here in the States.