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Hello all Do any of you have references for the specific gravities of blood products for weigth to millileter conversions? We are finding conflicting information regarding this. Any help is appreciated thanks debb

Hiya all I have a question... How are you handling HLA testing on donors that have been transfused or pregnant? And how many positives are you finding? At this time we are testing all who answer yes to those questions and have gotten quite a few more that are positive for HLA class I, II or both than we expected. Thanks debb

In NM the state health department has a specific set of forms to use and specific contacts for the infectious disease and as the collections facility/donor center we have to report any positives (confirmed positives actually) within the guidelines that they have posted. There have been instances where the donor will refuse the letter we send, however the NM health department has a follow-up of their own so I'm reasonably sure that the donor gets appropriate referral.

Hello As I understand the barcodes are read differently by the computer system (SOFT donor for the collection center & Misys for the transfusion services). We can only have one or the other not both... Deborah Pflanz, MT (ASCP) Presbyterian Infusion Center/Apheresis and Donor Services 201 Cedar SE, Suite #4620 Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-563-1310 Fax: 505-224-7156 dpflanz@phs.org

Hello We are a small hospital based donor center in NM. We use the stand-alone Digitrax to print the ISBT labels for our autologous (and allogenic). The donor system that we use is SOFT donor which will be updating to making ISBT labels in the next upgrade (due out this year I believe). The transfusion services are on Misys system and so far there hasn't been any issue -- just had to be sure the scanners read the ISBT bar codes so those were all updated. I can share the specifics of the procedure we use if you like... my contact information is listed below Deborah Pflanz, MT(ASCP) Presbyterian Infusion Center/Apheresis and Donor Services 201 Cedar SE, Suite #4620 Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-563-1310 Fax: 505-224-7156 dpflanz@phs.org

Hello All My Medical Director is asking about the specifics of Job Descriptions for our Stem Cell services... RE: “Could you get some copies of the various "Director" job descriptions i.e. Stem Cell Collection Medical Director; stem Cell collection Director, etc. Basically, all of the director type descriptions of Apheresis, Stem Cell collection, Stem cell processing, etc.†Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Deborah Pflanz, MT (ASCP) Presbyterian Infusion Center / HPC,Apheresis Services 201 Cedar SE, Suite #4620 Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-563-1310 Fax: 505-224-7156 dpflanz@phs.org

We use the REES system in our Donor & HPC services... they have very good service and now the lab is looking to use them for their temperature monitoring. The hospital pharmacy has asked about them but I'm not sure what service they have decided to use as yet.

Is ASBPO still supporting the Immunizations, Medical Conditions, Drug and Medication, and Malarial deferral lists that they have been in the past? I have not been able to find them on the ASBPO website. If this is the case, then how are other Donor Centers monitoring the changes (esp in the Drug & Medication listings) for donor eligibility or deferment? Our donor center is fairly small and to monitor all the new meds (& changes in the labeling for existing drugs) could be a nearly full-time job.

We are bringing SOFT-Donor up at this time (our go-live is scheduled for the end of June) We just have out validations to begin this week... So far it is a very functional system and user-friendly. I might have more to add as we get further into the validation...

we are also using Korcheck to support the Hemocare system as we update our Donor Services computer system.

We are required to report to the state any confirmed positive transmissible diseases. There actually have 3 different agencies in NM that we have to report to depending on which test is confirmed as positive.

Hi all We are comparing the pre-processing and post processing (at least 48 hours after step-down freeze) viabilities of our HPC units and finding quite a bit of variation. Do other HPC processing labs do this kind of comparison? If so, what are the limits of difference for acceptability? I haven't been able to find any benchmarks for this to date. Any help would be welcome… thanks

We do sterility testing on all HPC's (autos only at our facility) using the media that our testing laboatory supplies us with: BaT/Alert media; SA, for an aerobic 5 day culture and MB, for a fungal 42 day culture. They are loaded into the automated blood culture machine at the core reference laboratory. If they get a positive, which is an extremely rare situation, it is worked up per the micro SOP. We also use the nunc aliquot to double check any positive cultures.