#immunohematology

[immunohematologymadeeasy]

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[mediocreclementine]

Some news from the blood bank world!

The Oklahoma blood institute has lifted it's deferral criteria that bans people from donating blood who lived in the UK between 1980-96! However, they do still maintain the deferral criteria that no male can donate who has had sex with another male in the last three months.

Here's the announcement:

Thank you so much Oklahoma, very cool!

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Really stupid thought but you know how you always hear stories of people testing their blood type for fun and accidentally stumbling on family drama where their dad isnt their bio dad or something.

Imagine Adrien finding out hes a sentimonster because they do blood typing in science class

[dingdangit]

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[paidinbrains]

i wish i was joking when i say sudoku is getting me through blood bank

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[kitkatpancakestack]

I love my job and especially because it can be more complicated than blood type and it's like figuring out a logic puzzle to get compatible blood for some patients. The official name of our profession is "immunohematology" which is the study of the immune system of the blood and it's really cool!

There's a huge shortage of lab scientists, so if anyone is thinking about the medical field but not sure about patient care look into lab. We learn about a lot of diseases and how they show up in lab work. There are two certification levels, associate's and bachelor's. We are required to pass national board exams and recertify with continuing ed every 3 years.

I've been the person to see blasts in a 2 year old's blood sample and know they have leukemia, the pathologist officially calls it but the lab is the first to know what's going on with a patient. There are different areas like chemistry is electrolytes, hormones, and things like that then there's hematology which is your complete blood counts and white cell differentials, coagulation which all about how the blood is clotting, urinalysis for urine testing, microbiology for infectious disease testing and identification, and blood banking for transfusions. Those are the main areas but there are so many other subspecialties.

I've been at a blood center for the past almost decade but am looking to get back into the hospital setting. I'm actually hoping to interview soon for a lab director position.

You're the coolest person ever

[nocturnalghoul]

Tell us more about ghoul blood, I want to know about weird xenobiology. Or xenohematology, I guess, but blood is part of biology.

Gladly!!!! I went full nerd mode on this because surprising nobody, being at work doing blood stuffs was a great time to think about blood stuffs and SEVERELY overcomplicate things but I had so much fun I don’t care.

I put it under a readmore cause it got kinda long. I am a girlie (kinda) with a lot of thoughts!

To start here are some thoughts about RBC and transfusion biology:

I had talked before about how element relates to blood typing, and if they were part of the same grouping system or their own separate systems and I finally decided each element would be their own antigen families on the red blood cell. I think that makes it much more interesting because then you could technically have a ghoul that would be compatible with an element so to say, but might not actively exhibit the element. A ghoul could also then receive blood outside of their element in an emergency as long as they haven’t made an antibody to that element before (crossmatch time!).

Now quintessence ghouls are fun! In real immunohematology there is a uncommon phenomenon called a “Fy(b) GATA”, which essentially is somebody who exhibits the Fy(b) antigen on their tissue cells, but the gene coding for it has a mutation in it so that that antigen degrades and cannot properly encode on the red blood cells. A similar concept happens as a natural occurrence with quintessence ghouls so that on their actual tissue cells that element is present, but unless they have a secondary element, there’s not an elemental antigen on their RBCs. This essentially makes them the perfect universal donor for both RBCs AND plasma! (Fun fact in humans, ABO type comparability for RBCs and plasma are inverse of each other. So like AB patients can get any type RBCs but only AB plasma). Any sort of quintessence multi or hybrid would still have their secondary element(s) on the rbc though, but I like to think that quintessence is more of a recessive element and while it might be able to co-express with another element, that other element would be dominant.

I have also said before that Dews elemental transition would work sort of like a bone marrow transplant. Expanding on this to say that therefore his red cells would look like a fire ghoul (thanks Ifrit for being such a lovely donor) and his plasma looks like a water ghoul still.

Intermission blood thoughts: I think that once placed into a human vessel, there’s this weird 90 day period where all the old human blood left in the vessel gets gradually replaced by ghoul blood and they can’t really tap into their element until then.

Actual hematology thoughts: Ghoul blood is straight up weird man! Their plasma glows under UV light; it requires a special stain to look at correctly under a scope; their skin is sort of tough to get a needle through! Overall it took a long time to figure out what was going on with them. They all have much higher hematocrits (% RBCs by volume of blood) than humans do which leads to them having a lot more general stamina. There is definitely something weird going on with their red and white blood cell synthesis but I haven’t decided what yet. I do think they have a lower overall wbc count than humans do, but those individual types of cells are in differing percentages as well.

I’m currently trying to wrap my brain around how their blood, and more specifically elemental blood types, would relate to other things like renal function, but every time I try to think too hard about that my funny goofy brain cell just goes “pfft piss lol” and punches the science brain cell out of the way 😔. So those thoughts aren’t quite done formulating into something I can coherently express yet, but I’m getting there!

[ollie-ollie-oxenfreee]

Learning about bloodbanking and immunohematology for school made me realize just how annoyed those poor techs in vampire stories must be when some creature of the night swoops in and steals the transfusion units that they’d been so carefully testing and documenting

[mediocreclementine]

Some news from the blood bank world!

The Oklahoma blood institute has lifted it's deferral criteria that bans people from donating blood who lived in the UK between 1980-96! However, they do still maintain the deferral criteria that no male can donate who has had sex with another male in the last three months.

Here's the announcement:

Thank you so much Oklahoma, very cool!

Bonus: quote from my program director, a hematology specialist and doctoral student who wrote a published article making a case against msm donor deferral.

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🫵🏻 blood mutual

[ganeshpatil]

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[omkarpatel]

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