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1. Albumin - pharmacy 2. Clotting Factor concentrates - BB 3. Rh Immune Globulin-intramusular - BB 4. Rh Immube Globulin-intravenous (WinRho) - BB 5. IVIg - pharmacy

I second this! I have been using it for a couple of years and even purchased it. The one drawback is when you are not on the computer it is installed on you forget passwords. :roll:

We are at a large facility and we are not doing this either.

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I agree that would be nice. We also have a fairly active pheresis center and four Trima so we could do that but... We have a home grown LIS and it can't handle that type of collections. We are in the process of negotiating a new system and it should be functioning mid next year. At that point we can consider this option and many more!

That sounds like a great idea. We have two centers, one relatively small WB center and one fairly active plateletpheresis center. The platelet donors are very dedicated and it's hard to get them to not donate. The WB people are a bit tougher. I think food has worked well. We had a few days were the staff made homemade breakfasts cooked to order while you donated. It was a big hit.

We are a large transfusion service with a smallish donor center. For us the staff is enthusiastic about using the device (we have one Haemonetics), but the criteria for the donors is a bit harder. Most women don't qualify and they make up the majority of our donors. Then there is HT increased time commitment. For me I actually prefer to donate this way, so then I have four months off between donations and don't need to feel guilty if I don't go every two months. Plus the validation was time consuming. Not that it was a lot of work, but it took a long time with the frequency of the donors. Are you using it now?

Well.... Yeah that's kinda the idea. Thanks again for the suggestion.

AABB recommends that donors be deferred for one year from the departure of Iraq. The CDC indicates Iraq malaria status as "Risk in the provinces of Duhok, Erbil, Ninawa, Sulaimaniya, Támim, and Basrah." We currently consider all of Iraq a malaria risk and don't plan to take further action. Does anyone have another approach?

Sorry, we'll be going with the Pall method.

Hi lim26, You might want to have a look at the FDA;s recall wbesite. They are at http://www.fda.gov/cber/recalls.htm. Also, here is an intersting article: Erstad BL. Viral infectivity of albumin and plasma protein fraction. Pharmacotherapy 1996;16: 996-1001.

Welcome Kate. I am hoping that we will be able to use this forum to share blood bank ideas with people outside of just the Boston area. I've looked for a while for a forum like this and since I couldn't find one I liked, I decided to start one of my own. We hope this to be a successful exchange of ideas.

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Lynn, Thanks for the great suggestion! This forum has been added.

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