Donor Services and Donor Recruitment

i am looking for information about walking donor . is new for us . i like to know what is AABB rule in this . i need to know the regulation and guildlines to recrute walking donors. please share your expreince dealing with walking donors

Hi Everyone, What would be considered an appropriate length of time for training a new employee coming to work in the lab performing viral marker testing on donor samples or someone coming to work in the hospital distribution department who will be taking blood orders and possibly initiating some quarantines? If you currently work or have worked at a blood center (regardless of size), was there an established time limit for training, for example 3 months or 6 months, before the new employee was signed off and working independently ? Any info will help, Thanks

Just wondering what other blood collecting facilities do for potential donors with active adult asthma? Do you defer the donor? Are there any exceptions to this defer, like exercise induced asthma? Thanks:p Stephanie

We are looking into purchasing a small CBC analyzer (Sysmex pocH-100i) to run platelet counts for product yields. It will require doing 1:2 or 1:3 dilutions, since the linearity is only 999x10^3. We have reservations about running dilutions, since we have noticed falsely low plt counts when we've done this in the past on a Beckman-Coulter AC.T Diff2. We currently have a neighboring lab run our counts on a larger analyzer with higher linearity that does not require dilutions. Has anyone had any experience with the Sysmex pocH-100i or have recommendations for an similar priced analyzer ($10K)?

Are apheresis platelets acceptable if the room temperature of the collection facility was 26 degrees celsius at the time of collection? AABB standard 5.6.5.1 says that "Apheresis platelets shall be transported and stored in a manner intended to cool the Apheresis platelets toward a temperature range of 20 to 24 celsius". The platelets were 26 degrees celsius when they reached the processing lab.

Our hospital is trying to determine how long can be platelets be unmonitored before being returned to the blood bank. Does anyone have any ideas on how to perform a validation study for this?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Stephanie

We currently do not label FFP collected from CMV sero-negative donors as CMV negative, the working theory (I assume) is that the low temperatures required for the freezing and storage of FFP kill or inactivate the virus. Recently we've had two customers question this decision. I cannot find any literature discussing this specific issue, does anyone have any information regarding CMV and FFP?

what is the policy regarding G 6PD def donors?? should they be allowed to donate red cells?or is it better to defer them from blood donation?

Does anyone collect and transfuse platelets less than 3.0E+11? If so, how are you labeling these products according to: ISBT FDA Requirements: The platelet yield must be on the label for products less than 3.0 Thanks again Stephanie

Hi -- Does anyone have experience collecting and processing blood donations from healthy volunteers for research purposes? Not for transfusions. Are regulations for this donation purpose that are different than donating blood for transfusions? Do you have any process guidelines, screening questionnaires, protocols, SOPs, consents you can share? Can volunteers be paid and are there regulations on the amount they can be paid? Your help and direction on good resources is desired and much appreciated.

For those who perform drives to collect platelets by apheresis: what are the logistics, are these pre-screened donors? Thanks.

We are a hospital based donor and apheresis service. We perform many outpatient phlebotomies during business hours. However, we do not bring our on-call apheresis RN in after hours to perform requested inpatient phlebotomy. We have had several requests lately. Can you share your practices for after hours therapeutic phlebotomy?

Hello everybody ! If a donor has received a B12 injection for asymptomatic decrease in his serum B12 level ,or as a supplement , is he deferred ? for how long ?

What is the difference between directed and designated donation ? Please if u have reference code it.

Are Donor Centers still using Self Exclusion Cards for volunteer donors? It has been brought to my attention that most donor facilities are no longer doing this. Is there another process used? Thanks Stephanie

How much plasma can be collected from a donor by Trima depending on his weight? Are there any guidelines? Searched the fda site. Cant find it. can some plz post here.

Hi everybody I hope you are all well Is it mandatory to do blood culture to blood components (Platelets, PRBCs) when doing other QC tests monthly Thanks

Does anyone use or know of an acceptable substitute for wet ice when transporting whole blood in coolers from mobile drives to the component processing lab. The blood is centrifuged at room temp and is not for platelet production?

Double red cell collection: What is the protocol?? Is it necessary to have saline compensation during or after the procedure? Do we have to add any storage solution to the red cell units after collection?? The machine we intend to use is TRIMA accel..

For those facilities that collect granulocytes - what value do you use for the specific gravity to convert the product weight to volume? Thanks!!!!

Hai, 1) Could you please tell me the average platelet collection time using Trima accel? 2) On an average how many platelet collections or donations are possible with Trima accel in a day? ( assuming 8 hours of working) Thanks Alex

Could any one post a SOP for double red cell collection !!! It would really help.. or from where i could get the guide lines

I am looking to acquire a Bloodmobile, which one would you advise? I am considering a 6 bed , 3 history with slide-outs and full option. Anything I should be aware of? All advice is more than welcome, I have no experience in Mobiles. Thank you Liz

Is anyone aware of a ISBT label for leukoreduced red cells from a low volume collection? Thank you

Does anyone use the Kawasumi Blood Drawing Kit for drawing donors or therapeutic phlebotomies? If so, do you have any pros or cons to share?