098CE: "Simply REDS" with Steve Kleinman and Cassandra Josephson
Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
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Transfusion Medicine - Red Cell Survival
The study is looking at red cell survival from all the different ways that we can. In a sickle cell patient, we want to look at the hemoglobin a versus s and we can do that with hemoglobe in separation. The other piece is is, if it's a patient with talsemia, we're going to look at their hemoglobin change. And so they're going to measure serum iron actually in the recipients, and measure some of the am different aspects in the donor as well. That study is going to include, altogether, the red blood cell impact study, about 500 participants.
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