Addressing the national blood shortage: Why blood inventory is so important
In this episode of Lab Medicine Rounds, Justin Juskewitch, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, discusses the national blood shortage and why blood inventory is so important.
Lab Medicine Rounds · Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Show Notes
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:05 From your perspective, why is the blood inventory important to a hospital?
04:17 What have you learned about managing a hospital’s blood inventory these past 18 months or so?
08:09 I was wondering if you could give us a specific example on how are they trying to bridge that gap?
08:55 Can you explain who the Dream Team is?
12:34 How does PVM look different on the hospital side? How is that being worked?
16:33 How might physicians, non-pathologists, help their hospital’s blood inventory? What are the practical things that is within their sphere of control that they can help?
20:52 What do you hope that our learners take away from these blood shortage challenges that we’re navigating right now?
23:20 Outro