Apheresis Appreciation Day, 2020

4. of a ____________ reaction include: numbness or tingling, especially in the lips, fingers, and toes. feeling vibrations throughout the body. experiencing a metallic taste.
8. fine control of the depth at which cells are collected from within the buffy coat layer.
10. Sterile Solution
11. A cell isolated from the blood or bone marrow that can renew itself, can differentiate to a variety of specialized cells, can mobilize out of the bone marrow into circulating blood, and can undergo programmed cell death, called apoptosis.
13. This procedure may be performed to decrease a very high white blood cell count, to obtain blood cells from a patient or donor for later transplant into the patient, or to obtain cells for research purposes.
15. cells consist of lymphocytes (T cells, B cells, NK cells) and monocytes, whereas erythrocytes and platelets have no nuclei, and granulocytes (neutrophils, basophils, and eosinophils) have multi-lobed nuclei.
16. G-Force
17. Related Donor

1. A form of apheresis and photodynamic therapy in which blood is treated with a photosensitizing agent and subsequently irradiated with specified wavelengths of light to achieve an effect.
2. vs. Host Disease
3. most common type of cutaneous lymphoma, and typically presents with red, scaly patches or plaques on the skin.
5. cells are collected from the patient themselves, harvested, frozen and stored, then infused back into the patient after intensive therapy.
6. A solution used to prevent platelet activation and coagulation as blood moves throughout the extracorporeal unit (tubing set) in an apheresis procedure.
7. Spectra Optia system's automated interface management
9. stem cells come from either a related or an unrelated donor.
12. fraction of an anticoagulated blood sample that contains most of the white blood cells and platelets following density gradient centrifugation.
14. the sun's rays from the skin, blocking the rays from penetrating the skin.