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Meeting Notes
Author(s) -
Lesses Mark Falcon
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/j.1537-2995.1962.tb00210.x
Subject(s) - falcon , citation , information retrieval , computer science , library science , world wide web , programming language
THESE COMMENTS are directed particularly to those interested in the practical administrative and technical details of various phases of a transfusion service and will deal only with selected papers. J. J. Griffitts and R. P. Schmidt in “The Effectiveness of Technics in Demonstrating Isohemagglutinins” reported that no single testing system will detect all red cell antibodies but that combinations of systems are necessary for maximal sensitivity and detection. Antiglobulin systems continued to prove fruitful. H. Chaplin, Jr. and M. Cassell in “The Occasional Fallibility of I n Vifro Compatibility Tests” reported that in their patient with sickle cell anemia no technic could be found to have predictive value in preventing in uiuo incompatibility. Discussion with regard to buffy coat reactions or leukotoxicity started with a paper by T. J. Greenwalt, M. Gajewski and J. L. McKenna dealing with a new “white cell” filter that removes an acceptable number of granulocytes. M. Cassell, P. R. Phillips, and H. Chaplin, Jr. described an improved dextran sedimentation procedure which reduces contamination hazard and allows the original blood container to be the final container. Both of the described methods involve breaking of the hermetic seal of the original container and manipulation of the blood. On the afternoon of the last day of the meeting, P. J. Schmidt, S. V. Kevy and M. H. McGinniss in “Fever, Pyrogenicity and Leukotoxicity in Transfusion Practice” critically surveyed febrile transfusion reactions and leukoagglutinins both retrospectively and prospectively. They found little correlation between leukoagglutinins and febrile reactions in most of their recipients and felt that further study was needed a s to the causes of febrile transfusion reactions. E. R. Jennings, M. H. Ellestad, 0. W. Shadle, A. J. Beland, and C. Hindmarsh in “Preliminary Observations on Possible Toxic Effects of Citrate Ion” reported that at least in dogs, rapid massive infusions of blood are toxic, often fatal, when citrated and non-toxic when heparinized. A. Kliman, L. A. Gaydos and E. J. Freireich Meeting Notes