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Nancy Dunbar

Nancy Dunbar

Medical Director of the Blood Bank and Special Coagulation Laboratory at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth; specialist in transfusion medicine.

Aug 27, 2026

Questions People Ask

Questions People Ask

AGS and Transfusion Reactions

Aug 27 · 1h 13m

Scott Commins
Scott ComminsHOST
32:30
Obviously y'all are reading the literature and, and tell us now, What happens at Dartmouth?
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:37
We think our first case happened after those cases were published.
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:41
And unfortunately, we weren't able to prove the first case because, of course, it happened on a Friday night or something.
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:47
And I didn't hear about it until the next Monday.
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:50
By then, the patient was gone and I wasn't able to test.
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:54
Our first maybe case was a guy who was getting a plasma transfusion in the operating room.
Nancy Dunbar
Nancy DunbarGUEST
32:59
I don't remember why.

35 MINS LATER

Scott Commins
Scott ComminsHOST
67:46
Have you seen other centers follow suit or have other similar adjustments to their transfusion protocols?

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