Abdulhameed Al-Attas
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas got a reaction from Sandy L in Incompatible cross match in enzyme phase
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas got a reaction from catchmenow51 in Incompatible cross match in enzyme phase
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas got a reaction from Malcolm Needs in George Garratty.
Yes, I agree, a huge loss to the Immunohematology and Transfusion Medicine Community.May he rest in peace,
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas got a reaction from geekay in Joint Commission standard refers to FDA requirement regarding FFP labelling
aafrin,that is a very good question.
I am afraid I have no idea but let us see what our folks say.
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas reacted to Deny Morlino in Time Elapsed between Issue and Transfusion
Our policy is the same as yours. Infused within 4 hours of issue. If there was something that magically occurred to a unit at the 30 minute mark, all transfusions would be required to be completed within 30 minutes. My suspicion is that the nurse remembered the old rule that units had to be back into the refrigerator if not started within 30 minutes to be eligible for reissue. If the unit is started and completed within the 4 hour time frame, then the regulations as they stand are met.
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas reacted to carolyn swickard in EMERGENCY RELEASE OF O NEG UNITS
I am with the others - you need a specimen as soon as possible. We have become a "Stabilize and Ship" hospital and I am beginning the have troubles getting a specimen from ER when the patient leaves in a hurry. Still ridiculous - our last patient was here over 1 hour and took 8 units here and 2 units to go and they still couldn't get me a specimen!
If your hospital is Joint Commission accredited, look their standards over and see if you can find something to pound on them with, AABB recommendations are very clear on the subject and it does endanger the hospital as a whole if you can't prove the blood did not contribute to the death or injury of the patient. That said, maybe your Risk Management dept. could help you out.
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas reacted to David Saikin in Using complement coombs control cells with polyspecific antisera.
You only have to run the IgG sensitized cells when using poly ahg. The inspector should read the commentary associated with the ahg standards. The complement control cells only need to be run when using the specific anti-Complement reagent. You should also be aware of the commentary for that standard and could have rebutted the citation on the spot. The inspectors (esp those from CAP) are not always on top of the inspection game. It behooves you to have a handle on the inspection process . . . it never bothers me to butt heads with the inspector if they do not understand a standard or are just plain "iggerant!"
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Abdulhameed Al-Attas reacted to John C. Staley in Changing Blood Types
So.... if the patient is an A and you continue to give O then you keep adding to the anti-A and anti-A,B load which continues to attack the patients cells. You are just continuing to feed a vicious cycle.
I'm afraid that this is one discussion where the logic of giving a baby who has mom's anti-A in them, type O cells containing more anti-A has complete escaped me. I simply can not follow the logic of pouring more gasoline on the fire you are trying to put out.