blood banks association of new york state (bbanys), inc.

blood banks

association


of new york state (bbanys), inc.



Newsletter Highlights

Table of Contents / Page

  1. Blood Banks Association of New York State 56th Annual Meeting
  2. Letter From the President
  3. Presentation Summaries:
    • Antiplatelet Drugs and Pharmacologic Approaches Used to Decrease Bleeding
    • Transfusion Practices Under the Microscope
    • Introduction to Six Sigma and Lean With a Transfusion Medicine Example
    • Extreme Makeover: Can We Improve Platelet Concentrates?
    • Annual Meeting Photos
  4. BBANYS Annual Business Meeting Summary
  5. West Nile Virus Donor Screening Called a Success by NEJM Paper and Editorial
  6. West Nile Update, 2005
  7. FDA's Current Thinking on Reentry of Donors Deferred for Repeated Detection of Antibody to Hepatitis B Core Antigen Under Review by the Blood Products Advisory Committee
  8. State Legislative Report, 2005
  9. CBER Issues Information About Monkeypox and Blood and Plasma Donation
  10. Special Report: FDA Leukocyte Reduction Workshop
  11. People in the News
  12. Exhibitors
  13. Please Remember the Hurricane Victims
  14. Board Members and Officers

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Editor and Assistant Editor:Submissions Coordinator:

Editor: Jeanne V. Linden, MD, MPH
Assistant Editor: Marcia H. Kolakoski, MS
New York State Department of Health
Albany, New York
(518) 485-5341

Debra Masel, MT(ASCP)SBB
Chief Supervisor, Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine Unit
University of Rochester - Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester, New York
(585) 275-9658


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