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I just got a memo from the ARC. They are working on convalescent plasma supplies. No details yet.

You would need to research available studies or file your own eIND. Approval can take as little as 4 hour I am told. Then you would either collect it yourself, or work with you blood supplier to collect appropriate donors. Requires excellent communication. You can only use it for your study. It is not an off-the-shelf product.

Sonya Martinez, Where are you going to get the COVID-19 convalescent plasma? I had a physician inquire about that this morning. I don't think our normal providers will have that as it is still considered "experimental." Thanks!

I believe that once ventilated, due to the risk of DIC, some COVID19 patients are requiring extensive platelet support. Thank fully not seeing this at present in Scotland, however numbers of patients testing positive are increasing daily.

Really sick patients needing ECMO will use blood. I don’t have a way to gauge the utilization at this time though. All the best.

I'm currently working on building the convalescent plasma product codes into our computer system in case it is needed/wanted. But I'm in a children's only hospital so the only thing we're seeing right now is the normal stuff like urgent heart, spine, cranio and orthopedic surgeries plus our chronic transfusions for the rare anemia patients. We are no longer doing non-urgent surgeries and I anticipate to slow down further but according to the news California had the first death of a child (person under 18 yo) with COVID-19 but I haven't see if that's why the patient died. It would be nice if anyone knew lab personnel in Italy, Spain, etc but I think they may be a bit busy right now!! Unfortunately for us the flu is still going strong and we have had HUS and CAHA cases from it.