SBB Study Guide 2 questions | Actual Questions and Answers
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
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What is the deferral period for someone who has received a blood transfusion?
- ✔✔12 months
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Where does the AABB stand on pregnancy and blood donation?
- ✔✔a woman is deferred if pregnant in the past 6 weeks
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What is the deferral period if a potential donor received the varicella zoster vaccine (live attenuated)?
- ✔✔4 weeks
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What is the deferral period for a whole blood donor who received the yellow fever live vaccine?
- ✔✔2 weeks
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What is the deferral period for someone being treated for syphilis?
- ✔✔12 months from completion of therapy
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A potential blood donor spent 7 years in Germany from 1995 to 2002. Are they eligible to donate whole
blood?
- ✔✔No, indefinitely deferred
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CJD may be transmitted by all of the following EXCEPT:
1. Neurosurgical instruments
2. human dura matter grafts
3. pituitary derived human growth hormone
4. stem cells
- ✔✔Stem cells
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Which of the following should be indefinitely deferred?
1. donor with malaria
2. donor who has been incarcerated 3. a pregnant woman
4. a donor with a history of hepatitis after 11th birthday
- ✔✔a donor with a history of hepatitis after 11th birthday
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A donor diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia is:
- ✔✔indefinately deferred
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A potential whole blood donor presents with the following upon physical exam: Hgb 13 g/dL, Hct 39%,
pulse 75, temp 99.4, can they donate a unit of allogeneic whole blood?
- ✔✔Yes
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A donor who ingests aspirin is deferred for 48 hours because aspirin interferes with?
- ✔✔Platelet aggregation
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A donor who has had a positive test for AIDS/HIV virus is:
- ✔✔indefinitely deferred
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What is the interval between allogeneic blood donations?
- ✔✔56 days
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What is the deferral period for an apheresis donor who wishes to donate whole blood?
- ✔✔48 hours
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In this type of autologous donation, blood is collected just before the start of surgery so that blood shed
during surgery has a lower concentration of red cells?
- ✔✔normovolemic hemodilution
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In double red cell pheresis, the interval between donation is:
- ✔✔16 weeks
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A potential allogeneic whole blood donor was incarcerated for 5 years. He was granted parole and
wished to contribute to his community by donating blood. Can he donate?
- ✔✔Yes, but there is a 12 mo. deferral period from the date he left prison
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What special considerations should be givien to directed donations?
- ✔✔Blood must be irradiated if from a blood relative
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A minipool of 16 donor samples was analyzed for HCV RNA. The test was positive. Which of the
following courses of action would be followed?
- ✔✔Test each of the pools individually or test a smaller pool
Latest Updated 2026/2027 (Graded A+)
•
What is the deferral period for someone who has received a blood transfusion?
- ✔✔12 months
•
Where does the AABB stand on pregnancy and blood donation?
- ✔✔a woman is deferred if pregnant in the past 6 weeks
•
What is the deferral period if a potential donor received the varicella zoster vaccine (live attenuated)?
- ✔✔4 weeks
•
What is the deferral period for a whole blood donor who received the yellow fever live vaccine?
- ✔✔2 weeks
•
What is the deferral period for someone being treated for syphilis?
- ✔✔12 months from completion of therapy
•
A potential blood donor spent 7 years in Germany from 1995 to 2002. Are they eligible to donate whole
blood?
- ✔✔No, indefinitely deferred
•
CJD may be transmitted by all of the following EXCEPT:
1. Neurosurgical instruments
2. human dura matter grafts
3. pituitary derived human growth hormone
4. stem cells
- ✔✔Stem cells
•
Which of the following should be indefinitely deferred?
1. donor with malaria
2. donor who has been incarcerated 3. a pregnant woman
4. a donor with a history of hepatitis after 11th birthday
- ✔✔a donor with a history of hepatitis after 11th birthday
•
A donor diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia is:
- ✔✔indefinately deferred
, •
A potential whole blood donor presents with the following upon physical exam: Hgb 13 g/dL, Hct 39%,
pulse 75, temp 99.4, can they donate a unit of allogeneic whole blood?
- ✔✔Yes
•
A donor who ingests aspirin is deferred for 48 hours because aspirin interferes with?
- ✔✔Platelet aggregation
•
A donor who has had a positive test for AIDS/HIV virus is:
- ✔✔indefinitely deferred
•
What is the interval between allogeneic blood donations?
- ✔✔56 days
•
What is the deferral period for an apheresis donor who wishes to donate whole blood?
- ✔✔48 hours
•
In this type of autologous donation, blood is collected just before the start of surgery so that blood shed
during surgery has a lower concentration of red cells?
- ✔✔normovolemic hemodilution
•
In double red cell pheresis, the interval between donation is:
- ✔✔16 weeks
•
A potential allogeneic whole blood donor was incarcerated for 5 years. He was granted parole and
wished to contribute to his community by donating blood. Can he donate?
- ✔✔Yes, but there is a 12 mo. deferral period from the date he left prison
•
What special considerations should be givien to directed donations?
- ✔✔Blood must be irradiated if from a blood relative
•
A minipool of 16 donor samples was analyzed for HCV RNA. The test was positive. Which of the
following courses of action would be followed?
- ✔✔Test each of the pools individually or test a smaller pool
