nurse-ledperipheral blood stem cellstraining and competencytransplantApheresis nurses are well equipped with not only the critical thinking skills but also the important aspects of operating the apheresis machine. As the demand for advanced cellular therapies grew, there was a need to recruit and ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook apheresis Dictionary Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia [af″ĕ-re´sis] any procedure in which blood is withdrawn from a donor, a portion (such as plasma, leukocytes, or platelets) is separated and retained, and...
Aleksandra Babic, RN, European Institute of Oncology (EIO); President-Elect, European Group for Bone Marrow Transplant (EBMT) Nurse Group (Italy) Ian Lewis, MB, BS, PhD, Head, Acute Leukaemia Laboratory, Center for Cancer Biology; Medical Manager, Therapeutic Products Facility (TPF), Royal Ade...
Study Highlights Added Benefit of Alirocumab in HeFH Patients Requiring ApheresisLea EslavaKimPharmD
The confused or obtunded patient is unable to communicate symptoms related to citrate toxicity so the nurse must rely on other assessment parameters in order to prevent complications.Howell CTransfusion and apheresis science: official journal of the World Apheresis Association : official journal of the...
Nurse qualificationHematopoietic stem cell transplantation requires a wide-range of expertise and procedural competence, in which nurses play important roles throughout, including stem cell mobilization and collection by apheresis. Little is published about post-licensure nursing education in apheresis, which...
Study highlights include comparison of data before and after the apheresis nurse scheduling change, breakdown of apheresis procedure performed from January 2013 to April 2014, and the impact of extended-hour operation on therapeutic apheresis service.Jacob, Seby...
Therapeutic immunoadsorption is the selective removal of immunoglobulins from patients in an extracorporeal circuit. The biochemical and structural properties of Staphylococcal protein A and its utility as an immobilized ligand for this application are reviewed. Utilizing it and an adsorption system that ...
The blood and marrow transplant nurse coordinator evaluated the patients' veins. Of the 95 patients having 192 PBPC collections, 65 were collected using antecubital veins, 21 were collected from PermCaths, and 9 from Hickman catheters. All patients predicted to collect peripherally did so and ...
Other parameters collected include the names of the physician, apheresis nurse, type of emergent apheresis procedure, day of the week, and season of the year. Results During the study period, 32 emergent procedures (or "black‐cloud" events) occurred. The median time between two consecutive ...