Antibodies- Coming in from the Cold
Program Code: 104638
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Michele Anastasi, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, Hines VA Hospital PLMS (113)

SPEAKERS
Geralyn Meny, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

DESCRIPTION
Audio conference will provide a brief overview of what a cold agglutinin is (allo and auto). It will look into ways that blood banks are currently resolving cold-reacting allo and auto antibody issues, in particular how blood banks can determine if any other clinically significant antibodies are present. Finally, it will look into the typical clinical issues associated with cold agglutinins, in particular when the patient is a cardiac one. The instructional method will be lectures.