San Diego Blood Banker

Thank you so much everyone!

I worked with Harvey at a hospital in Boston.  Then when he went out on his own, we worked together to develop several products.  One was corrugated plastic boxes to put in Igloo coolers that kept the blood away from the ice.  He bought sheets of plastic and experimented with welding and gluing the boxes together.  We finally got one that worked, so we bought a ton of them from him.  Then we moved on to Credo coolers.  He was great like that.  We'd present a problem, he'd help us build it, and then he'd often add it to his product list.
Yes, he made us custom racks, but those have all died, and I have not been with that hospital for a while now, so I am not sure what they are doing.

https://www.bio-rad.com/en-us/product/id-working-tables?ID=M17LIB15
Home Products Clinical Diagnostics Blood Typing & Antibody Detection Semi Automated Systems and Manual Workplace ID-Working Tables Bio-Rad has Gel and Tube Racks that should work, maybe better.   "ID-Working Tables" item 009660
You will have to log in at their website to get the price.  
Hope this helps.
 

Does anyone have a lead where I can find the gel crossmatch rack?

Marketlab has none. I tried Fisher Scientific.. nothing. 

I am looking for this type of crossmatch rack where I can do tube and gel on the side... Orto doesn't have one either..  Help. Thank you!
 

So we ended up sending it out to ARC. 
 
Patient is subgroup A2 and Anti-M identified.

So we ended up sending it out to ARC. 
 
Patient is subgroup A2 and Anti-M identified.

So we ended up sending it out to ARC. 
 
Patient is subgroup A2 and Anti-M identified.

Thank you so much everyone. 

The current hospital is not equipped to issue blood through pneumatic tubes.. very old building... can't support it. I miss those days i can tube up the blood products. 

 

That would be nice.  Blood centers here want to charge us for that.  They may keep it on file, but won't provide the info unless you pay... especially lookin' at you Red Cross!

We have no problem with this. I will connect you with our WellSky expert who built the system to work beautifully for us. Her name is Jill and her email is JHShaw@valleychildrens.org   Please reach out to her and she can walk you through exactly how to do this.  I will alert her to be expecting an email from you!

We updated the Attribute description to 'IRRA or Equivalent' and 'CMV or Equivalent'.

I've reached out to the vendor and said they don't sell the just the luggage handles. We ended up purchasing new integrated MAXQ coolers. 

You can't use REST adsorbed plasma to XM.  IT removes ABO iso hemoglutinins.  But use your validated computer system if all else fails.   If your computer is validated and will not let you select ABO incompatible units then it can be used for ABO compatibility.

I attached a few SOPs and a flowchart.
Please let me know if you need other items.
E-1-5_Identifying Cold Antibodies.docxE-4-6_Cold Autoadsorption.docxE-4-5_Cold Absorption Using RESt®.docxE-10-3_Cold Antibody Workup Process Flow.docx