#Blooducation101
Chapter 17: Babesia Screening

Do you know what is the leading cause of reported blood-borne pathogen in transfusions in the United States?

If you read the title, you’ll already have a guess, it’s Babesia! Babesia is a parasite that infects and lives in our🩸

Hey #MedStudentTwitter 👋🏼

Do you know what this image shows?

Obviously you do !!

If not, read this short thread 👇🏻

#MedTwitter

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#MorphologyMonday

A patient presents to their GP looking and feeling a little yellow. The blood film showed the following. What's going on?

After discussing with the Haem Reg, you decide to do a coombs test. Can you predict the result of that?

#OnlyCells #RedCells

Get out your glasses 😎
🌘Tomorrow will be a #SolarEclipse in St Louis, a rare event that may take place every 100 years or more. Every so often the moon passes between the Earth and Sun just at a location where the moon obscures the light of the sun.
Learn more here 👉🏼…

Welcome Indira Guleria 🌷to the wonderful community! Thank you Daniela Daniela Hermelin, MD for tagging me! Great to see the @aabb #Blood & #Biotherapy #community thriving #CellTherapy

Hey SLU Medicine & SSM Health St. Louis educators!

Want to participate in educational scholarship? Interested in taking a scholarly approach to the investigation of topics that matter to our school?

Check out the PRIMED Initiative website and apply to participate!

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Daniela Hermelin, MD Indira Guleria Welcome, Indira Guleria! We're thrilled you're here! 🥳

Save the date!

The next edition of the AABB Global Transfusion Webcast will focus on the three pillars of a sustainable blood system.

📅: Wednesday, April 10
🕙: 10 a.m. ET

The conversation will stream live on AABB’s LinkedIn page. RSVP today: bit.ly/4cGQmM7

A superb and comprehensive review on “Prevention and management of acute toxicities from conditioning regimens during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation” just Published in Clinical Hematology International, the official journal of ⁦IACH⁩ chi.scholasticahq.com/article/94952

Is anyone out there doing any other method than Kleihauer-Betke stain for FMH? Trying to find an FDA-approved flow/Elisa. #sbb #blood bank #transfusionmedicine #blood ucation #lab 4life #lab #blood

Tonight: 🌯 #Fajitas
I stopped on my way home at Trader Joe's and picked up a pack of peppers, onions, cans of black beans, chicken, rice, tortillas, ✨Enchilada sauce, and 🌶️ #ChiliLime spice seasoning packed with so much flavor.

From start to finish it took me about 60…

23 yo F, 28 weeks pregnant, presents to the ED with severe vaginal bleeding. She has no family history of bleeding. Check out her lab results. What therapy is she most likely to require?

#NaturePhotograhpy
No matter how high you fly🪶, remember to be humble and grounded...caption by Dr. Pooja Suresh Poojary 👌🏻👌🏻

The #AABBFoundation is proud to support early-career researchers advancing knowledge of bleeding disorders. Meet Ben Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD, a 2022 Foundation scholar, discussing his #hemophilia research, career and advice for new investigators. bit.ly/3TP7ZB8

Happy to share our April 2024 SLU Medicine CEDAR Community Blog Post!

In this peer-reviewed post, Keniesha Thompson details the value of formative feedback in #MedEd , clarifies challenges & opportunities, & offers ways to support effective feedback delivery.

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Should we keep prescribing drugs to patients based on outdated data? Or because there just aren't very many other 'good' options? We must fund #sicklecelldisease research. AABB ASH onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Daniela Hermelin, MD AABB Please be careful with these posts though, and reaffirm that Drs will tell PTs if they can’t safely donate, rather than the current issue, people making assumptions that they’re not candidates when blood/tissue products are sorely needed *for pts with these diseases/disorders*!