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Wooly Mammoth

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  • Birthday 11/13/1946

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  1. I'd like a little clarification from those technologists that indicate their facilities have a policy to give O+ blood to males, and de facto to females past child bearing age, in an emergent trauma and O= blood to females (of child bearing age). While I understand that when O= is not readily available it may be necessary, at times, to do this, but to basically say if you're a male of Rh negative status we will give you Rh positive blood and we guarantee to give you a circulating antibody to D antigen for all your future years and increase your medical costs for all of those future antibody IDs that technologists will have to deal with or send out for reference. If that is your 'policy' then I have a good lawyer I'd like you to talk to. Please explain.
  2. I agree regarding Helmer EBA-21 very good unit and the Ultra CW for cell washing. Great company, good service, well built product. If you order the EBA-21 you may want to inquire regarding direction of numbers stamped on the head. Ours go clockwise and I prefer counter clockwise. Good Zentrifugen.
  3. As a matter of fact in December of 2006 after Immucor had their last tremendous increase I too looked at the Wall Street information available vs the Hospital pain of bearing the increased costs. We all know that American medicine is critisized for its cost as cries for nationalized health care ring out by some of the presidential candidates. I documented what was happening to us and the profits that Immucor was making particularly after buying out all their competion other than Ortho. Read their 10K statements on Yahoo finance and look at their stock performance over the past 5 years. They have suffered with the rest of the market's woes recently but when I wrote the FTC, Hillary, and Fienstein (California senator) in December 2006 their stock and profits had been skyrocketing, read the chart. After 3 months I did get a call from a lawyer in Washington DC and he said he'd get back with me and that was the end of it. The government is here to protect business ie:Bear Stearns etc. If all of you users would write and complain maybe it would help some, but don't count on it. Go to FTC.com and file a complaint!
  4. I have a related question. We are a rural hospital who frequently transports patients to the big city by air. We do get orders to crossmatch and box units for transport so that units will be available for transfusion in transit. Although we tried to set up systems to learn the final outcome, there was little information returned to us and we often don't know if units were transfused or not. I've considered these units as patient billable....is the hospital responsible for eating the charges on transported units?
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