WHAT'S NEW
The winter issue of our newsletter, Infusion, is out. Find out about the 2008 Annual Meeting in Ocean City, Maryland at the Clarion Fountainbleau April 11 - 12th. (Find the Preliminary Program on the Annual Meeting page.) Also read Judy Sullivan's "President's Message," all about the opening of the new headquarters for Virginia Blood Services, and a Quality Corner relating "Tissue Issues."
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DESSERT MEETING
September 27, 2007:
Location: AABB Headquarters
8101 Glenbrook Road
Conference Room
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Subject:
Processing donor units post collection. Why do we: antigen type, wash, irradiate, sediment and filter units? Benefits and costs, drawbacks and rationale for performing these modifications to donor units before transfusion. Come learn about this timely and important topic by experts in the field!
Speakers:
Traci Dunnings, MT(ASCP) and Betsy Furlong, MT(ASCP)SBB
Please RSVP to Lorraine Caruccio at:
LCaruccio@mail.cc.nih.gov if you plan to attend.
Directions:
The AABB is about one mile from the NIH,
off of Old Georgetown Road (Rte 187) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Mapquest directions
PREVIOUSLY . . .
DESSERT MEETING
June 8, 2006:
Location: AABB Headquarters
8101 Glenbrook Road
Conference Room
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Subject:
"What the heck is that what's-it called NAT?!" Learn all about NAT testing from start to finish, including problems and answers and quality issues. Miller-Keystone Blood Center delivers the goods on NAT and related testing.
SPECIAL TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP, FALL OF 2005
Blood Bank Quality Today, an MAABB TWC and TRAQ Combined Workshop
| Date: | Tuesday, November 1, 2005 |
| Place: |
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 2401 W. Belvedere Avenue Baltimore, MD 21215 |
DESSERT MEETING:
| Date: | Thursday, September 29, 2005, 7 - 9 PM | |
| Where: | AABB Conference Room | |
| 8101 Glenbrook Road | ||
| Bethesda, Maryland 20814-2749 | ||
| Topic: | Platelet Usage/Platelet Cases | |
| Speaker: |
Maria Bianchi, MD, visiting medical scientist at the National Institutes of Health | |