Thanks for your responses! Scott, a transfusion slip with the complete patient demographics and unit information go with the unit, it's just not tied, attached, stuck on, etc. The patient's info is verified when they bring down their physician signed uncrossmatched blood form when they're picking their units up. The units are issued through the "emergency issue" function in Meditech Magic to registered patients. So all of the information is linked in our HIS. Certainly ER is responsible to "log what unit goes into what patient." When they're infusing, they match what is on the transfusion slip to the unit and the patient's wrist band. After you do your 5 minutes in mediware assigning the units how do you actually label them? Mabel, I see where you're coming from, but I think if a member of clinical staff comes into the blood bank with our standard form for blood for Mr. Apos, is issued and reads back form with Mr. Apos's info with BB staff, takes the Apos unit with Mr. Apos's patient information all over it and runs into some other room and hangs it on some other patient without looking at anything then we're in big trouble!