Transfusion Medicine
Transfusion medicine specialists provide a wide range of consultative services to many areas of our Medical Center including our Level I Trauma Center and our transplant program. We bring blood products and services to our patients with bleeding disorders.
Services include:
- Blood donation
- Consultations for patients with blood disorders
- Peripheral blood stem cell collection for marrow transplantation
- Therapeutic phlebotomy
- Therapeutic apheresis
Areas of special expertise include:
- Care of patients with sickle cell disease
- Clinical consultations for anemias and other abnormalities of the blood counts
- Clinical consultations for blood clotting disorders
- Evaluation and management of failure to respond to blood product transfusion
- Evaluation and management of transfusion reactions
- Provision of routine and specialized products for transfusion
- Treatment of iron overload and polycythemia