Author(s)
Cristina A. Figueroa Villalba, MD1
Sara Patterson, BSN, RN, OCN2
Christopher A. Tormey, MD1
1Department of Laboratory Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
2Yale New-Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut
Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Laboratory Directors and Educators
Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
· recognize the indications for therapeutic phlebotomy;
· describe the therapeutic phlebotomy procedure;
· identify the implications of testosterone therapy-induced erythrocytosis; and
· distinguish when products arising from therapeutic phlebotomy can be used for blood donation.