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Mayo Clinic's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP)
is one of the largest clinical laboratories in the world. It is
composed of 1,600 people working in 40 specialty laboratories performing
more than 13 million tests a year.
A highly skilled team of medical professionals, including physicians,
scientists, medical technologists, medical technicians, lab assistants,
biologists, chemists, microbiologists, geneticists and other specialists
work collaboratively. The department receives specimens for testing
from Mayo Clinic and Mayo Health System and is a reference laboratory
for other clinics and hospitals both nationally and internationally.
DLMP's Division
of Transfusion Medicine is responsible for the collection and
testing of blood to be given to patients at Mayo Clinic (traditional
"blood banking"). The area also supplies blood and blood
products for Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital, care facilities on the clinic campus.
The division is also responsible for collecting and processing
hematopoietic stem cells for blood and bone marrow transplantation,
as well as the testing necessary for organ transplantation. Each
year more than 40,000 units of blood are collected from 17,000 local
donors.
The Therapeutic Apheresis Unit at the Mayo Clinic is one of the
oldest in the United States, starting operation in January of 1974.
We perform therapeutic apheresis procedures to treat patients with
neurologic, renal and blood diseases. Approximately 3,300 therapeutic
apheresis procedures are performed each year, including approximately
1,200 peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell collections.
More than 130,000 products are administered by the Transfusion
and IV Team or Mayo Clinic physicians. Transfusion medicine performs
approximately 60,000 red cell compatibility tests and 90,000 ABO/Rh
blood typings annually.
The laboratories of the Division of Transfusion Medicine are accredited
by the American Association of Blood Banks, the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy, the College of American
Pathologists, and the American Society for Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics.
Transfusion
medicine specialists, each with different interests and specialty
areas, will take an active part in your training.
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