We only ever issue one product at a time because we are a small hospital and the surgical suites are literally the next door over from Blood bank. We have been using the Hemotemp stickers on each unit issued. I would like to stop putting hemotemp stickers on and just use an IR thermometer. We don't have coolers to issue products in so I am not concerned with nursing staff taking units out of a cooler for extended time periods and then putting it back and getting temps back down. Our current policy is that for a unit to go back into inventory it must be returned to blood bank within 30 min and within temp (currently measured by the hemotemp). Does anyone see any issue I am not considering if I stopped using the hemotemps and switched to measuring the product temp with an IR thermometer considering we only ever give out one unit at a time and never in a cooler?
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Infrared Thermometers
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We only ever issue one product at a time because we are a small hospital and the surgical suites are literally the next door over from Blood bank. We have been using the Hemotemp stickers on each unit issued. I would like to stop putting hemotemp stickers on and just use an IR thermometer. We don't have coolers to issue products in so I am not concerned with nursing staff taking units out of a cooler for extended time periods and then putting it back and getting temps back down. Our current policy is that for a unit to go back into inventory it must be returned to blood bank within 30 min and within temp (currently measured by the hemotemp). Does anyone see any issue I am not considering if I stopped using the hemotemps and switched to measuring the product temp with an IR thermometer considering we only ever give out one unit at a time and never in a cooler?