Transfusion medicine

[augmel]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

Just wondering if anyone has experience with clinical med folks (internists, peds, anesth.) that do transfusion medicine. I know the fellowship is open to those people but is more often done by pathologists. Is it a lab job or do they ever do clinical consultations similiar to hematologists only in a more narrow field? Are they usually full time with a blood bank? Thanks for any info.

 

[Leukocyte]

When I was a Med. Tech. working in the BB, the Transfusion guy was a Pathologist who:

-Managed the managers who manage the BB
-Investigated Transfusion Reactions
-Gets called when there is a "tough antibody" that we med. techs cannot solve. However I never saw him get called in for that.

I rarely saw that guy in the BB though.

 

[LADoc00]

Just wondering if anyone has experience with clinical med folks (internists, peds, anesth.) that do transfusion medicine. I know the fellowship is open to those people but is more often done by pathologists. Is it a lab job or do they ever do clinical consultations similiar to hematologists only in a more narrow field? Are they usually full time with a blood bank? Thanks for any info.

My understanding is that only CP board certified pathologists can sit for certification in BBTM. I have seen hematologists do TM unboarded, but anesth. would be very odd unless its at a small rural hospital.