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Cytomegalovirus and Best Practices in Transfusion Medicine Program Overview

Program Description

This program will discuss the epidemiology of Cytomegalovirus (CMV), from it arrival on the medical scene to its current day concerns in transfusion medicine. You will be able to review the routes of transmission of the virus, understand the growth in different populations and identify individuals who are high risk for acquiring CMV. You may have asked "What is the risk to today’s blood supply" and this program will go over the facts and the numbers to help you better answer that question and methods for providing CMV-reduced risk blood components and the limitations of each.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the workshop, the participant will be able to:

  • Describe Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and its disease manifestations
  • Identify the risk groups for developing symptomatic CMV
  • Discuss transmission of CMV
  • Discuss the methods for providing CMV-Reduced risk blood components and the limitations of each method

Level of Instruction

  • Intermediate

P.A.C.E. Statement

Blood Systems, Inc. is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program

In 1977, P.A.C.E.® was established by the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) to stimulate and serve as the quality assurance mechanism for continuing education programs offered to clinical laboratory professionals. ASCLS strongly supports continuing education opportunities to increase and enhance professional knowledge and ongoing proficiency. P.A.C.E.® ensures that the continuing education programs offered to clinical laboratory professionals maintain high standards of quality and professional acceptability.

Contact hours

  • Completion of this program will provide 1 contact hour of continuing education credit.

Speaker Credentials

Hannah Acevedo MS, MT (ASCP) SBB has been worked for Blood Systems, Inc. for the past 21 years in various positions, including Technical Director and Executive Director. Currently she is a Manufacturing Process Specialist for Donor Collections.

Technical Requirements and Assistance

To view the program material, you need a computer with a supported web browser and a dial-up or better internet connection. The supported operating systems and web browsers are:

Operating Systems

  • Windows 2000, XP, Vista
  • MacOS X 10.4 or later
  • Linux 2.6 with KDE or Gnome

Web Browsers

  • Internet Explorer 6 or later
  • Firefox 2 or later
  • Safari 3 or later
  • Opera 9 or later

Technical Support

Content Questions

  • Please contact Hannah Acevedo at (480) 675-5776 for questions regarding this program.
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