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I question what we do at our facility.  We send out pipettes for calibration and then have to recheck them once they come back.  We don't use as many points to check as they do to calibrate.  The recheck doesn't seem necessary.

once thawed we relabel the unit as thawed plasma and it can be stored at 1-6C for up to 5 days.  The "5 day" timing starts once the unit is placed in the thawing bath and the computer system assigns the expiration time (120 hours) of the thawed unit.

If we only did the antigen typing once, we charge the first patient, whether or not they end up using them.  We wouldn't charge the second patient for getting a product already antigen typed.