Transfusion medicine specialists at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester support clinical areas, including the Blood Bank, Transfusion Medicine Outpatient Clinic and Blood Donor Center. Staff focuses on individual patient issues that underlie activities in the laboratory and assure patient safety while doing so.
Services include:
- Blood donation services
- Consultative services for patients with blood disorders
- Peripheral blood stem cell collection for marrow transplantation
- Therapeutic phlebotomy services
- Therapeutic apheresis services
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