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We have recently bought a new sterile tube welder from a new company. This particular company doesn't offer customers a sterile weld integrity kit. ( basically, it's a kit where you weld wet to wet tubing and dry to wet tubing. You send the welds to the company, who examines the weld strength and integrity) Should I be concerned about this? How am I going to test the integrity of the welds. We do examine the weld after each use, but our previous company detected the welds strength and integrity. Is checking the weld after each use enough? thanks stephanie
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Just wondering what everyone was using for their medication deferral list. We had orginally used the Military's medication deferral list as a guideline. I just found out recently that this site can now only be accessed by military professionals. Does anyone have any great resources or do you use your own institution deferral list? thanks stephanie;)
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I heard about Blood Bank Talk at last year's AABB meeting. I think someone was representing the website at the AABB Exhibit Hall. He was in this little corner and looked totally out of place. I think it was because he had to share a table with another vendor. Cliff, I think that would be a great place to get the word out about this great site. You should conside having a bigger representation at the AABB Annual Meeting.
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OK, here is the situation. I can't seem to get a straight answer from anyone I know so I thought I would post this question. We current monitor the room temperature in our donor center by using just a room temperature chart. Soon, the hospital will be using an automated temperature monitoring system that can record the ambient temperature 24 hours a day. So, my question is.. Do I need to have a chart and an automated temperature reading? I know that our blood refrigerators need an internal temperature, monitor temperature, and a chart. But about a room tempearture? Is it good enough to have just the automated room temperature reading and no chart? We currently only use one method for monitoring our ambient temp and that is the chart, so is it unreasonable to just use only the automated monitor temperature ? Somehow it is the easy questions that no one can answer straight.
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I am currently creating a powerpoint presentation on the cGMPs for my staff and I was wondering if anyone had some good presentations they would like to share or knew a good resource for cGMP presentations. I have already seen the cGMP presentations on the AABB website. I am looking for something different or more current. thanks stephanie
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I am currently in the process of revising all our SOP's, when I came across this Maximum Extracorpeal Volume( ECV). We currenly calculate this out for all our donor apheresis procedures. According to our SOP, this need be less than 15%. ( We calculate this out by taking the ECV / Total blood volume). Since being new to the department, I asked some of my staff about this and no one could tell me where this came from. I have searched in all the AABB standards and FDA regulations about ECV. Does anyone know anything about this or is currently do this? Is it even necessary to calculate this out anymore? Or does does anyone know where I can find information about this? thanks stephanie:confused:
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We currently just switched from Rees to Isensix too. Unfortunately, we are having a hard time with Isensix. ( contractual isssues). I think Isensix is a great system, but I found that Isensix provided very little support for the implementation of the system.
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We are lucky that we have managed to put all our SOP's on-line. It has been great and I highly recommend it! The problem I am facing is when I look at the electronic SOP on-line, how do I know this is the lastest version of the SOP. We do keep a SOP tracking log, but nothing on the SOP itself indicates what version it is. On paper copies, we are able to see signatures of approval and a date, but not on the electronic version. I was wondering if anyone had any inventive or creative ways of identifying the latest version of the SOP electronically? thanks stephanie
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I was wondering if anyone is performing an abbreviated DHQ on their tissue donors on the day of collection? ( DLI and Allogeneic HPC) My department is currently looking into doing this, but can't find any requirements on what is needed for an abbreviated Tissue DHQ. ( validations, certain questions, and number of questions). If anyone has an abbreviated DHQ for tissue collections I can look at , that would be great. thanks stephanie
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We are currently looking at the Donor Computer System called Soft. ( Soft Donor) Is anyone using this system and what are their thought about it. thanks stephanie
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Doble Red Blood Cell unit by apheresis
spavlis replied to javvcr's topic in Donor Services and Donor Recruitment
We currently use Trima for our double red cell donations. Unfortunately, most of our donors don't qualify for a double red cell donations. Overall, Trima is a great and definetly user friendly. -
I know that around Christmas time, we send holiday cards to all our donors. In the card we thank them for their donation and info them about our raffle to some sporting event in January. So, the donors who show up to donate in January are entered into the raffle, but at the same all the donors were made of the incentive.
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We are looking into buying a new carrier for transporting our blood products. What is everyone else using or is there a company someone could suggest? thanks stephanie
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Thanks for the input. Does deferring a donor ( auto, therapeutic, or research) for having a disease xx, violate any ethical/legal/HIPPAA regulations. Are we allowed to put private information into a database that is used for donors who want to donate allogeneic blood? Another twist to the problem! stephanie
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I am currently setting up a computer deferral database and I was wondering who should go into the database. We currently have it set up for all are volunteer donors, the question is whether to consider other donor populations: 1) Patients with cancer who come to donate autos for surgery? 2) Research volunteers with Hepatitis C who donate whole blood for research purposes only? 3) What about allogeneic Stem Cell donors? 4) Therapeutic Phlebotomy patients with Hemachromototis? At first I thought it was a good idea to enter all these populations into our deferral database, on the chance that they might want to be a volunteer donor someday. I am now thinking is this over-kill. Can we " baby proof" are entire donor population on the chances that someday they might want to be a volunteer donor. Or are we suppose to put more faith into our screening tools (DHQ), on being able to capture this information. Any thoughts????:star_full
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I was wondering if anyone is currently monitoring the ambient temperature in their donor center. I am having trouble finding what are the acceptable ranges for ambient air. I had it orginally 20-24, but realized that we weren't compliant with this range. It was hard to control the temperature when you have small rooms, limited airways, and machines pumping out all this heat. ( We currently don't collect any blood products that are stored at room temp) Is 20-24 a realistic temperature range? Any help would be appreciated. I am just not sure if I am heading down the right path? thanks stephanie
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I seen lots of posting regarding the new AABB TRALI guidelines. I was wondering if anyone is going to take the alternate route and test all their female donors? I know that this probably wouldn't be cost effective for large facilities, but we are small donor center. Does anyone know who is testing for Anti-HNA or has looked into the testing route? We are also -- dare I say-- considering having our Blood Bank wash all our HLA positive platelets. ( again we are a small donor center). Has anyone thought about this approach? I would love to hear some of your feedback or just your thoughts about this topic. stephanie