[Blood unit patient label]

2 hours ago, Bet'naSBB said:

we use both.....

our tags have a sticker on them.  when they print - all the pertinent info from the tag is on the sticker.  we place the sticker on the back of the unit at the time of tagging.

we got dinged during an inspection because the nurses took the tag off the unit while it was hanging....... the sticker solves that.....if they take the tag off - the required info is still on the unit.

we do this with all our blood products.

we currently use SCC-Soft Bank

We recently got dinged because of this! We use Cerner Community Works and I don't think they have that template built in Blood Bank to print patient labels for the units

[Blood unit patient label]

Hi all!

I was wondering how other facilities/hospitals label their blood units after crossmatching? Does anyone use label stickers and place it on the unit or just use crossmatch tags in paper? 

[Kleihaur Betke Stains]

On 6/21/2007 at 5:57 AM, John C. Staley said:

We still do K-Bs for trauma and such to determine if baby is bleeding into mom. No counts, just are there fetal cells or not.

We don't do them to determine RhIG dosage. For that we send positive screens to the local reference lab for flow.

Hi! We are planning to do KB testing for traumas as well. Do you report it as fetal cells positive or negative?

[Emergency Neonatal Transfusion in Small Hospitals]

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