Bonnie

What kind of pH meter does your facility use? Table top or hand held? We are thinking of purchasing one for our platelet pH testing. Any info would be much appreciated.

Is it necessary to take temps up in surgery when tissue products are being used in surgery. I am thinking like if bone putty gets sent to surgery stays up there for awhile and then comes back unused. Do you have to prove that it was kept at room temp while in surgery? I guess the same would go for a skin graft which we stored at refrig temp? How long can it stay out before it can no longer be put back in fridge. Bonnie

I work in the Transfusion Dept in our Hospital and we manage the Tissue Program. Right now we store the frozen and refrigerated tissue and Central Supply stores the ambient. Our plan is to store the ambient tissue in the future. It is also hard with the documentation that is required for Central Supply to comply with what we ask of them. Surgery is hard to deal with also because they just cant seem to think how they could ever get their ambient tissue from Transfusion. Even tho thats where all their blood products come from in a very timely fashion. We are also later on this year going to work on getting a computer system up to track the tissue products. We will probably try to use our Sunquest System for it. Does anyone know how much the Tissue Track Core System is?

Hi, I work in Blood Bank and I help manage our Tissue Program for our Hospital. I was wondering if anyone had a Tissue informed consent form that they could share with me? This is one of the pieces that we feel is missing from our program and I would appreciate some examples. Thanks, Bonnie