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    HLA testing

    in Donor Services and Donor Recruitment

    Posted

    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

    Reporting infectious disease to Public Health

    in Donor Services and Donor Recruitment

    Posted

    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.

    Pre-Printed ISBT 128 Labels.

    in Computer Systems / Software / ISBT128

    Posted

    Does anyone know if you can mix ISBT 128 and codabar labels on the same unit? Don't tell me "NO" until you have physically tried it. I don't have any means of testing it but it theory it should work. That might make things a bit easier, provided it doesn't run afoul of some other regualtion...

    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

    ISBT 128 labeling of autologous blood

    in Computer Systems / Software / ISBT128

    Posted

    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

    Job Descriptions

    in All other topics

    Posted

    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.â€Â

    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

    Temperature monitoring vendors

    in Vendor Section

    Posted

    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.

    USA Armed Services Blood Program

    in Donor Services and Donor Recruitment

    Posted

    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.

    HPC Viabilities

    in Tissue, stem cells, and bone marrow

    Posted

    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

    Sterility testing of HPC

    in Tissue, stem cells, and bone marrow

    Posted

    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.

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