What is the Scope of MD Transfusion Medicine? what are Pros and Cons?
An upcoming important and prospective branch.
pros/subject in a nut shell-1.integral part of bone marrow transplant units as stem cell harvesting is completely under Transfusion Medicine
2.Have a great role in solid organ transplantation also for antibody titres and other pointers
3.HLA(institution specific)
4.Flowcytometry(institution specific)
5.Apheresis- plasma exchage,red cell exchange etc for autoimmune diseases,etc
6.new addition-convalescent plasma collection
7.Cellular Therapies like CAR-T cell
8.Single Donor Plateletpheresis
9.Coagulation like pt/aptt/inr
10.Component therapy (ffp/cryo/etc)
11.Cryopreservation of stem cell after harvesting.
12.Blood group and solution of all possible group descrepancies
13.Red cell phenotyping for chronically transfused patients like thalassemia/sickle cell/hemat onco& other onco cases.
14.Antibody detection(allo/auto) in chronically transfused patients or suspected autoimmune anemia
15.Transfusion reaction workups…
16.Mixture of clinics & lab
17.Good job opportunities as all Hospitals & blood centers are recruiting TM/IHBT personnel to run the centres…going up the tiers is also easy.Govt centres will also recruit& relatively peaceful life.
cons…
1.there will be no private chamber type practice as such since all the above mentioned points require a big setup to work in.
2.not a core clinical subject…clinics will be consultation for neuro cases(for plasma exchange etc),polycythemia cases,blood transfusion consultation for chronic transfused pts and antibody workups.
(i.e there will be pt interaction to some extent)
You can put up all these as a separate post in this group. People should get to know about these.