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We use clear plastic bags to transport blood products. Blood products are not considered biohazardous.

In New York State MT's and MLT's require NYSDOH license

We do Fetal screen in the blood bank and send to Hematology if KB (Fetaldex is needed)

For platelets and FFP, we require to 2 blood types on file.

I would type both units

Great post

Our computer system has a label verify application

Best of luck

Pharmacy handles all factors and albumin. Blood Bank handles Rhogam

We make sure that all our techs are involved in the Proficiency testing . I see no problem with splitting the samples among more than one tech

If the patient is not pregnant and has not been transfused in the past 90 days, we extend the expiration of the pretransfuion sample to 21 days.

HI and welcome to BBT

There is no need to relabel the codabar units.

1. Albumin - Pharmacy 2. Clotting Factor concentrates - Pharmacy 3. Rh Immune Globulin-intramusular - Blood Bank 4. Rh Immube Globulin-intravenous - Blood Bank 5. IVIg - Pharmacy

The transfusing location disposes of the empty bags. The bloos bank keeps 2 segments when the unit is issued and retained for 7 days post transfusuion. The units arrive at the blood bank pre-segmented

We jumped from 2004.03 to 2007.08. Good luck with the upgrade.

We are on 2007.08 and we built the ISBT products after the upgrade, we have no problems with scanning. What kind of scanning problems do you have?

I agree with John. You have to be very close to the armband in order to read the information. Sometimes you need a magnifying glass to read those armbands....

We do Poly DAT and if positive, run monospecific (IgG + C3d

Our samples are collected in Pink tubes. We do not separate the cells from the plasma.

Our transportes bring a pick up slip with all th epatient's information stamped on it. We use at least 2 identifiers to issue the unit out of the blood bank.

Our computer system is tested and validated for computer (electronic) crossmatch. However, we are still waiting for the final decision from the Medical Director to implement the computer crossmatch process.

We do not collect Directed donors at our facility but we refer them to the American Red Cross. If a patient requests directed donors, we ABO/Rh type the potential donors and perform an ABO/Rh and Antibody screen on the recipient. If donors and recipient are ABO/Rh comaptible we then have the comaptible donors go to the ARC for donation.

We are AABB and CAP accredited. We also get inspected bt the NYS DOH

Thank you all. This thread was educational and informative with regards to plasma and ISBT