Baby Banker

You won't be cited for not being in a separate room. You can be cited if your work area is too small and cramped. We were cited by the FDA years ago. I was walking beside the FDA inspector talking to him and one of my staff walked right into me. There was also an issue where if one of the blood refrigerator doors was open, there was no way to get from one side of the Blood Bank to the other. Even so, Administration was not happy at all about having to give us more space. They did, but grudgingly and they gave us the least amount they could get away with.

Unfortunately, the Vision requires the flag characters. I do not know why.

I had one of those inspectors.

Yes. That is how they are different.

We have found them to be different. The suppler has confirmed this.

We are in the process of bringing Ortho's Vision Swift online. One of the things we would like to do is put unit confirmations on it. We've had an issue when we used the labels from the back of the units to put on the sample tubes. Apparently there is a number on the labels from the back that is different from the front label. This is causing us trouble when we try to put units on the Vision for retyping. Has anyone encountered this and found a way around it?

We have SafeTrace instead of Soft, but we have made reconstituted whole blood for many years. We normally use it to prime a circuit. We treat the reconstituted units as if it were two units in one bag. We sign both units out in the computer even though they are in one bag. SafeTrace does not allow pooling of products which are of different product types. If Soft will allow that, you may be able to use that to avoid dealing with two unit numbers, etc.

Sad news. I never met him. I was fortunate enough to have known John Case, John Judd, and George Garratty.

That has always been my impression as well. On a related topic, the u in Du stands for Underwood. The first patient who was discovered (or at least the first one written up) was named Underwood. Frances Wideman told me that at a CAP Transfusion Medicine Seminar ages ago.

We use the screening cells. They've never been positive.

A question for those of you who have interfaced instruments: are you using autoverification.

We are experiencing all of that. The fact that my hospital refuses to even think about sign on bonuses makes it even worse. The hospital down the street has an $8-12K bonus and their benefits and pay were already better than ours. I saw a few weeks ago that a hospital in Philadelphia is offering a $20K sign on bonus.

We do this too, but the sops already posted have everything in them that is needed. I would caution you to not use saline as a diluent. We had a physician insist on it ages ago, but it doesn't work. You really need the oncotic pressure from plasma or albumin. If the concern is kernicterus, some places will use albumin. That's not usually why we do an exchange. We are usually confronted with a sickle cell patient with chest syndrome.

We've had it for a couple of studies, but we don't routinely stock it. We have SafeTrace Tx. I built a new product type for solvent detergent treated plasma. That prevents anyone from filling an octaplas order with regular plasma and vice versa. The product code for the pictured product is X0003. It will change to X0007 when it is thawed.

Also, if you waste time and effort on validation that is not necessary, you have less of both to do necessary validation. I mean what's next? Validating the change is the oxygen/CO2 ratio due to staff breathing?