M.D- 1st Year Transfusion Medicine - Blood Donor Organization, Technology of Components,Clinical Hemotherapy(Kerala University of Health Sciences-2013)

     PG Degree Examinations in Transfusion Medicine (MD) - May 2013

  Paper Ill - Blood Donor Organization, Technology of Components,

                                         Clinical Hemotherapy

Time: 3 hrs                                                                Max marks:100

• Answer all questions
• Draw diagrams wherever necessary

Essays: (20)


1. Discuss the various transfusion regimens for thalassemia major patients. How will you organize transfusion support in these patients based on their special needs.

Short essays: (8x10=80)


2. Strategies to improve voluntary blood donation in India

3. Leucoreduction

4. Prophylactic platelet transfusion

5. Red cell additive solutions

6. Therapeutic plasma exchange

7. Cryopreservation of red cells

8. Transfusion related acute lung Injury

9. Quality control for ELISA testing for transfusion transmissible viral infections