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Hello, what does this requirement mean exactly?

Yay, i'm soooo excited to be part of this group of blood banking professionals. I've been a med tech for almost 20 years now. Most of those years as a generalist in bloodbank, chem, heme, micro, but Blood bank is my favorite department. Did 5 years in supervisory position, changed hospitals where i was a night shift coordinator, i couldn't do that for long. Now i work days as a blood bank med tech at a very prestigious hospital in the Chicago land area. Everyday I'm learning here and always excited to come to work. Looking forward to learning from this group as well. Thank you!!

Hello everyone, I'm new to PLT and it just so happens that I was put in charge of revising our cold panel SOP. Do you all have any guidelines on the frequency of performing this test? Currently, we are performing the test anytime the C3 is positive after reflexing from a positive PSDAT. Many times, we are repeating the cold screen every 3 days. i revised the SOP so that if the reactions are 3+/4+ there is no need to go further into RT or 4 degrees. We've been wasting time by incubating 4+ reactions at IS through to RT and 4 deg. That's out of the way, just need to figure out how often to do the Cold screen. ONce a month? once every 6 months, once a year? any input would be appreicated. Thanks in advance