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Agree with Sonya, our fridges store reagent and blood products, so our range is 2.5-5.5 as well. I recall that autologous units that were "biohazard" because the donor was Hep C pos or something like that should be sequestered to their own area, and besides the BB knowledge of segregating certain things, I don't believe there is any rule about what can and cannot be in the same fridge. If you're talking about utilizing a fridge in or near the OR to store blood products for these transplants, then you just need to be sure the fridge is rated for storing blood products. Any old Frigidaire may not hold temps accurately throughout the whole fridge, which is what our OR attempted to get! We bought them an actual BB fridge (Helmer undercounter), and kept it specifically for blood only.

You can store reagents and patient specimens in the same fridge as blood but you need to make sure that the range is set to accommodate both. Our fridges are set with 2.5-5.5 C which meet both blood product guidelines and those of our reagents and specimens.

JCAHO in California. I agree with this only because the manual QC not only qcs you gel cards but your manual pipets, manual pipetting and your mts centrifuge. It is a different system. However, if CAP says what you are doing is fine you should have that documented because if I was inspecting you I would cite.

So in that case John, does each tech have to do their own QC because the human factor varies amongst humans. We view the Vision as just a hard working tech that works 24/7 and rarely takes vacation and that always scans its specimen barcodes without fail (the specimen verification is the human part of the equation I feel safer having the Vision performing).

I contacted AABB directly about the added standard 5.7.2.1.3 because it requires the vendors to provide expiration dates of the transfer bags even if the weld is complete which for us is a huge issue. I'm glad they are reversing this. That all being said, as long as the weld is complete we keep the expiration date/time of the product placed in the transfer bag. We only keep platelets in the mother bag and take aliquots from it for transfusion. We do change the expiration time to 4 hours when we place them in a syringe.

We use an IH-500. If the reactions in the software have no discrepancies (from previous or within the current results, weak reactions, error codes, etc.) they will autovalidate to our LIS. Our LIS does not autoverify. Those are always looked at before being released. sandra

An important aspect of this conundrum to remember is that physicians do not treat newborns just because of a positive DAT, they treat infants who are anemic or hyperbilirubinemic regardless of the DAT results.