Transcript: Sickle cell anemia is a genetic disease that affects hemoglobin, the oxygen transport molecule in the blood. The disease gets its name from to the shape of the red blood cells under certain conditions.
â¢ The MDS completion date (Item Z0500B) must be no later than 14 days from the ARD (i.e., ARD + 14 calendar days) and no later than 14 days after the determination that the criteria for a SCSA were met.
Although most clinicians wish to do their best for patients, the nihilism that surrounds MDS and the busy clinics that include MDS patients result in transfusion by âroteâ as the most common approach; two units every three to four weeks is assumed to be fine for most patients. Clearly, this is not always so.