Subject Description

This course will discuss the history of transfusion-transmitted infections in blood and blood components and mitigation of infectious disease in donor blood products. At the conclusion of the session, the participant should familiar with the estimated transmission rate of all infectious disease markers tested in donor blood, know which infectious disease markers are currently tested and what types of assays are performed, and understand the concept of emerging infectious disease in blood donors.

Learning Objectives

  1. Become familiar with the estimated transmission rate of all infectious disease markers tested in donor blood
  2. Learn about which infectious disease markers are currently tested and what types of assays are performed
  3. Introduce the concept of emerging infectious disease in blood donors and how we survey them

Level of Instruction

Intermediate

Author / Speaker

Mary Townsend, MD

Mary Townsend, MD

Senior Medical Director
Vitalant Inc

Mary is a clinical pathologist with a subspecialty of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Banking. As Senior Medical Director at Blood Systems, she has oversight of donor eligibility, donor safety and evaluation of recipient serious transfusion reactions from client hospitals. Mary is a member of the AABB Donor Biovigilance Committee and the AABB Donor Questionnnaire Task Force. She is the recipient of the AABB President's Award for her work in the development of the donor Biovigilance System.

Additional Information

Cerus Corporation is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.

P.A.C.E.: 368-048-21
Contact Hour: 1.0
Expires on: Feb 3, 2023 at 11:59 pm CT

Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education

Technical Requirements and Assistance

Minimum software requirements:

  • Operating system
    • • Windows XP SP2
    • • Mac OS X 10.9
    • • iOS 7
    • • Android 4
  • Web browser
    • • Internet Explorer 9
    • • Safari 7
    • • Latest version of Chrome or Firefox
  • Browser plug-ins
    • • Learning activities may be encoded as MP4 videos. Your browser must support MP4 playback natively or through the operating system to view these videos.

Minimum hardware requirements:

  • Desktops, laptops
    • • 512MB of RAM
    • • 200MB of hard drive space
    • • Intel x86 processor
  • Mobile devices
    • • Device capable of running iOS 7
    • • Device capable of running Android 4

Minimum connection speed:

  • A broadband connection is required for MP4 learning activities.

Questions or Comments

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