October 2022—The jury may no longer be out on whether pathogen reduction of platelet units reduces the risk of a septic transfusion reaction enough to replace culturing of platelet units.
Read More »Leaving behind outdated AST breakpoints
May 2022—Among the countless interruptions COVID-19 has inflicted on the medical community, one of the most obvious has been conversational. In the face of a global pandemic, other topics can seem unworthy of discussion. But as some post-pandemic normalcy creeps back in, so does the focus on topics of equal, if less dramatic, importance.
Lab with Ebola experience: COVID more complicated
August 2020—If there’s one thing scarier to experience than COVID-19, it’s Ebola. Or so you might think. “Ebola was easier,” says Beverly Dickson, MD, medical director of the clinical laboratory at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.
Read More »New requirements for use and storage of liquid nitrogen, dry ice
October 2018—Laboratory personnel safety is at the center of two new requirements and a revised requirement in the latest edition of the CAP accreditation program checklists, released in August.
Read More »Book surveys patient safety from AP, CP standpoint
June 2017—CAP Press released in May Patient Safety in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology Laboratories. Editor Deborah Sesok-Pizzini, MD, MBA, and 11 additional contributors cover handoff communications, technology, tools and methods, human factors, a patient safety curriculum, and more. Dr. Pizzini is chief of blood bank and transfusion medicine in, and vice-chief of, the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the department safety officer for CHOP Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and she is a professor of clinical pathology and laboratory medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. We asked her about the new book. Here is what she told us.
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