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How many Bloodbanks use Poly Specific Coombs Reagent on Cord Bloods. I see this as wasteful, since I do believe that Poly is more expensive then Mono IgG. Am I missing something. From what I have understood for years, we were only looking for IgG on Cords. Did something new arise to justify the added possible cost of using Poly on Cords? Just Curious

Welcome Hope to see you around on the boards. I am new here too and am glad I found this site. Great place they have here as far as resources.

South Florida Blood Bank (Florida Blood Service) out of Orlando Switched to 7 Day platelets I would say the week after the recomendaiton was made. I think that was close to over a year ago or More. Regarding the 7 days if I do recollect, after bacterial testing is done the Plt is good 6 days or so. In actuality it is only giving you one more day (from a transfusionist perspective) in light of the (pre Bacterial Testing Days) I am not sure of the Testing they did for feasability type studies on 7 day old Plts as opposed to 5 days. Is there a new preservative in use?

According to the latest AABB Technical Manual, (which I was reading lately), I remember seeing that blood warmers were used in the context of hypothermia. As I recall, that was the only time Blood Warmers were mentioned. I could be wrong. It is interesting to see how institutions use blood warmers and what the process and procedures are at any any given institution. My last Bloodbank Job was at a moderate sized open heart facility and there was question as to running blood warmers in Surgury where the patients body temp was brought down. I think the new Blood Bank Supervisor at the time did reserach and came to the conclusion that blood warmers are not needed, even in the event of the patient haveing a cold auto. Again I could be wrong. Please confirm that.

Mr. Bob I am sorry I did not get a chance to meet you. I just moved to Temple from Florida. I work as a second shift generalist at KDH. I know I am new, my question is how come you have to stop visiting this site? If you will not work as much, I would guess you would be around the computer more often. Whatever, I hope you enjoy. Blessings

To all, My name is John L. I am a MLT. I found this wonderful website and plan to use it as an info base. It is nice to find a place where people can hang out and share ideas as well as quetions about Clinical Lab, mainly bloodbank. I look forward to being around for a while. John L. (TurboTech)