Testing after FFP.

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

HI All,

Sorry to start a "new" thread, but I've been hunting for the thread about how quickly you should test a patient's clotting after the administration of FFP, and just cannot find it anywhere (no doubt, my fault).

Anyway, what I was going to say is that it could well be worthwhile for people to read Walter H (Sunny) Dzik's Chapter (Chapter 1) entitled "Component Therapy Before Bedside Procedures" in Mintz PD ed., Transfusion Therapy: Clinical Principles and Practice", 2nd Edition, Bethesda, MD, AABB Press, 2005.

I have a copy of this chapter, but, as it says at the bottom of each page "Copyright 2004 by the AABB. All rights reserved"., I am not in a position to post it, as I cannot afford to get sued!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had the enormous pleasure of sitting next to Sunny at a BBTS Gala Dinner some years ago, and a nicer man you could not wish to meet.

[Mabel Adams]

I think we just have to wait 70 years for the copyright to run out, don't we?

[Dr. Pepper]

Malcolm, you are right about Sunny. He generally presents at the Massachusetts Blood Bankers Society annual seminar, and is invariably informative and very, very funny.

[DOGLOVER]

I worked with him at MGH back in 1999-2000 and he is great. Hope to run into him at AABB.