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We rarely ship blood on a transport. The helicopter has minimal room and none for a blood box. If we do ship we call the transferred to hospital to find out disposition.

We don't send units with the patient unless they are already hanging. We found out years ago that units sent were discarded by the destination hospital and the explanation is simply that the other hospital didn't do the work and didn't want to responsible for someone else's work. I understand the reasoning thus we don't send units...

We just call and ask. Scott

Format: Abstract Send to J Allergy Clin Immunol. 1978 Jul;62(1):30-2. Allergy to a product(s) of ethylene oxide gas: demonstration of IgE and IgG antibodies and hapten specificity. Dolovich J, Bell B. Abstract Patient D.H., on chronic hemodialysis, developed severe allergic reactions after exposure to articles such as plastic tubing and hemodialysis supplies which had undergone cold sterilization with ethylene oxide (EO) gas. It was shown that human serum albumin (HSA) exposed to EO (EO-HSA) in the usual sterilization procedure selectively elicited positive skin tests and in vitro histamine release. It is now demonstrated that D.H. serum reacts selectively in a radioallergosorbent test (RAST) which utilizes discs coated with HSA and exposed to EO gas. In addition, D.H. serum contained IgG antibodies reactive with EO-HSA. This antibody activity was not detected in the sera of 27 normal subjects and 25 chronic hemodialysis patients. EO-HSA and ragweed RAST inhibition tests with a number of proteins in native form and after exposure to EO demonstrated the EO hapten specificity of the IgE antibody

this frequency increases as it gets closer to the end of the shift and time to go home in my experience.

It's probably all tangled-up in training, competency and proficiency. Maybe an administrative nightmare?