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Are Donor Centers still using Self Exclusion Cards for volunteer donors? It has been brought to my attention that most donor facilities are no longer doing this. Is there another process used? Thanks Stephanie
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Not sure my understanding of the AABB 27th edition is correct. 5.7.5.8.1 Anyone will to comment on whether this is correct. 1. Residual WBC Count: 95% of the units samples contain a residual leukocyte count < 5.0 x 106 2. Absolute RBC Volume: 100% of each collected unit contain ≥ 153 mL red cell volume. 3. Mean Absolute RBC Volume: 95% of all the units sampled shall have > 128 mL red cell volume Thanks Stephanie
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The Equipment Book is a book with all your department's equipment information. For Example: Serial Number Maintenance Repairs Service Reports Corrective Actions Annual Review Does that help? Stephanie
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Our current Equipment Book uses a paper system..... AND I REALLY, REALLY , HATE IT! :mad: I was just wondering if anyone is using some sort of excel or electronic database for their equipment book. There has to be a better system, than paper! Stephanie
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What are other Blood Centers using for their microhematocrit testing on Therapeutic Phlebotomy patients. We are looking to purchase a new machine with less "user interpretation". Thanks Stephanie
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Can anyone recommend a good auditing schedule for a Donor Center. Right now, I'm auditing every part of the Donor Center every month! It's a lot of work and I'm starting think it's really not productive. I would like to change to a more rotational audit schedule, but not sure how. If anyone could share their yearly auditing schedule, I would really appreciate it. Basically, I am looking to know how often you perform your audits. Do you do certain procedures quarterly, monthly? etc. Thanks stephanie
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I was wondering if anyone could recommend a refractometer for measuring total serum protein? We need to purchase a user friendly device.
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Plasmapheresis Validations
spavlis replied to spavlis's topic in Donor Services and Donor Recruitment
Thanks, the vendor did have a sample validationwe could use. The one lingering question is " How many plamsa collections do we need to collect to be successfully validated?" The vendor was great in describing how to validate plasma collections on the machine, but convienently left out how many to collections we need to perform. Any suggestions on how many successful plasma collections make us validated? stephanie -
Our donor center is interested in starting a plasmapheresis program. Does anyone have any information or suggestions on how to perform validation studies for plasmapheresis? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks stephanie:)
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Does anyone know if you have be LICENSED to collect plasma. Can you just be registered? If you have to be licensed, can anyone recommend any good documents on how to become FDA LICENSED? thanks stephanie
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What are other Donor Centers using for a humidity range? I am having difficulty finding a standard and acceptable range for humidity levels in a donor center. thanks stephanie
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Blood Donor Centers: I was just wondering if any blood centers are providing their female donors with: Information on TRALI The donor center's plans for TRALI testing Notification of positive results Outcome of positive results We are thinking about creating something similar to this for our donors. Does anyone have a TRALI consent or informational packet they would be willing to share? thanks stephanie
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HELP! I am reviewing the current FDA Guidance on Automated Apheresis Platelets. ( I know, it was effective Dec 2007, but ISBT became a little time consuming than I anticipated. ) Anyway, I am curious on how small donor centers are handling the QC monitoring portion of the guidance. I had recently attended a FDA Conference, where the CSO said " For donor centers that collect under 60 products a month, it's expected that they QC ( pH and platelet count) every product." Could this really be true?????? This whole statistical plan the FDA has developed seems to only be an advantage to the larger donor centers. It's becoming burdensome for us small hospital based donor centers. Please tell me that someone has developed an alternate plan to this QC monitoring nightmare ! thanks stephanie
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We are currenly using the UltraCrit. For daily QC use the company's High and Normal QC reagents For proficiency testing, we ran into HUGE problems. So, I am also curious what other donor centers are doing for proficiency testing? stephanie
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I was wondering what other donor centers are doing for their proficiency testing for microhematocrit testing. We have recently purchased a microhematocrit machine called the UltraCrit. Our proficiency testing in the past consisted of testing our results against Hematology's spun HCTs from EDTA samples. Well, this doesn't seem to be working for us now with the new machine. I interested in: 1) How proficiency is done in your center 2) How many samples are used 3) What is the Acceptable criteria 4) What is a "passing" score-- 100%? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks stephanie
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I was just wondering what kind of information people are giving to their donors post-transfusion? Are there special instructions given to donors who experience infiltrations? Does anyone have any post-transfusion instructions or infiltration care instructions that they would be willing to share? thanks spavlis
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I am currently updating my forms and I realize that our form for recording Transfusions is extremely outdated. Is anyone willing to share their worksheet or form for documenting Transfusions. ( The form will be used by our Nursing staff for our RBC Exchange patients.) Any help would be greatly appreciated. stephanie
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During our SOP Annual Review, I noticed that our self exclusion card information is in desperate need of updating. Would anyone be willing to share their self exclusion card information or the criteria or information they have on their card? Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks stephanie:)
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I am interested in finding out how other donor centers perform their label verification step after collection. With ISBT shortly coming, label verification becomes even more important. So, I am interested in hearing how label verification can be done manually and/or electronically. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks stephanie
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I was recently looking through the AABB's Cellular Therapy Standards and I noticed that the " Not for Transfusion " label isn't used. Does anyone know if the " For Non-Clinical Use Only" has replaced the "Not for Transfusion" label? I know that both AABB and FACT both mention the "For Non Clinical Use Only " label. Is the " Not for Transfusion" old Terminology? This also brings up another question of whether it's Ok to use the " Not for Transfusion " Label for blood products. Any advice would be appreciated. stephanie
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At my Donor Center, we currently do NOT accept volunteer donors who are on ace inhibitors. I realize that this isn't the norm and that most donor centers are accepting these donors. I have been assigned the task of trying to convince my Medical Director that this is an acceptable practice now. Any advice on where I can get information, articles, or other resources on accepting volunteer donors on ace inhibitors. Thanks stephanie
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Franklyn At your hospital do you perform any temperature correlation to verify that the automated temperature monitoring system is operating correctly? ( Ie. an comparison of the automated temperature to the internal temperature to the digital read out)?? If so, how often?? thanks stephanie
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Has anyone else wondered when the Blood Banking industry will become paperless for temperature quality control. Our hospital has just invested in an electronic temperature monitoring system. The system documents everything from alarms, to daily checks, to corrective actions. My question is ... Do you we still need to take the daily internal temperatures and the digital readouts everyday, if we have this automatic temperature monitioring system? According to the AABB, CLIA, and FDA we are only required to monitor the temperatures and document the corrective actions for out of range temperatures. It says nothing about correlating the internal temperature to the digital temperature to the automatic monitoring system. Though this is the norm for most places. Is anyone truely paperless for daily temperature readings? If so, how often do you perform the temperature correlations? I was told that maybe once a month might be good. Any help would be appreciated. stephanie
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Does anyone know if it is OK to test HCT/P's for NAT HIV and HCV testing in mini-pools? I have heard that recently the FDA has approved the testing of HCT/P's for NAT HIV and HCV in pools on the Roche Molecular Systems and Gen- Probe. Though, I still haven't seen any changes in the January FDA guidance " Certain Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products Recovered from donors who were tested for communicable diseases using pooled specimens or diagnostic tets". Are we suppose to wait for the FDA to change the wording on this FDA guidance before implementing the testing in pools? thanks stephanie
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Does anyone else realize that most of the product codes for ISBT don't have the collection date on the label? I can't believe I totally over-looked this fact. How are donor centers or blood banks checking to make sure the expiration date is correct on the label? thanks stephanie