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VACASE

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  • Birthday 05/05/1957

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    I'm a Blood Bank technologist but have recently started working with QA for the whole laboratory.
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    St. Petersburg (Bay Pines), FL
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    QA Manager / Blood Bank Technologist

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  1. Thank you so much for your replies! I got some good ideas. I know techs are humans but it's the non-stop chatterers that I worry about, both for themselves and those around them.
  2. Would anyone know where we could get a good antigen frequency chart that lists the antibodies and the percentage of negative units in the normal population? We used to have one and lost it in a lab move. Thanks.
  3. I was wondering if anyone had a policy on or had looked into one on conversations among technologists in the laboratory. I was reading about the Sterile Cockpit Rule that the FAA has as a regulation requiring pilots to refrain from non-essential activities during critical phases of flight and I could see how non-essential activities in the lab could interfere with laboratory testing that requires the technologist's undivided attention, especially in the Blood Bank. Any thoughts?
  4. AMcCord, I would love to see your procedure as well.
  5. We used to put a sticker on units that were ABO/Rh confirmed but stopped doing that a few years ago. We have a shelf in our refrigerator where un-confirmed units are stored until the confirmation is done.
  6. I'm writing to ask what other Blood Banks do for quality monitors in Blood Bank (e.g. STAT Turn-Around-Times). We currently do some but are looking for some more ideas. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
  7. Our policy is #1 (historical type) for FFP and Platelets.
  8. We had a physician call and ask when the sensitivity results would be ready on a sample that had a parasite.
  9. We are using Proquis for our document management system as well as incident reporting system.
  10. I’m sorry, my chart didn’t come out to good when I pasted it as a spreadsheet. It should read. FROZEN CODE THAWED FFP CODE (24 HR) THAWED PLASMA CODE (5 DAY) E0701V00 E0773V00 E2684V00 E0869V00 E1318V00 E2121V00 E0869VA0 E1318VA0 E2121VA0 E0869VB0 E1318VB0 E2121VB0
  11. We do 5-day Thawed Plasma and we use the E2121 code as follows: Frozen code (FFP) Thawed FFP code (24 hr.) Thawed Plasma Code (5 day) E0701V00 E0773V00 E2684V00 E0869V00 E1318V00 E2121V00 E0869VA0 E1318VA0 E2121VA0 E0869VB0 E1318VB0 E2121VB0 There should be additional letters on the end of your product codes to state what containers they came from. We use the E2121 code for our 5-day thawed plasma but we use it for the frozen codes starting with E0869. We have E0869V00, E0869VA0, and E0869VB0. When we modify them to the 5-day plasma we use codes E2121V00, E2121VA0 and E2121VB0 respectively. When I look on the http://iccbba.org/ website they have an ISBT128/Codabar map and the code I see for Apheresis FFP|ACD-A/XX/<=-18C is E0869 and they actually have codes for up to 8 parts (E0869VA0, E0869VB0, etc. up to E0869VH0). I did not see the E4693 or E4697 codes you mentioned but they could be new I guess. At any rate you can use E2121 product code for your 5-day plasmas even if they have the same DIN number because the product codes should have different extensions (e.g. E2121VA0 and E2121VB0). As far as your question about which thawed plasma code to use for E2555 vs E7071 (which I think is E0701) you would use the E2701 code for the thawed E2555 product I would think because they have the same description of 'Frozen <=24h.' We use E2684 for the thawed E0701 product. You really need to look at the descriptions and match them up for frozen vs thawed products.
  12. We are handwriting the expiration date on our pooled products. We are also crossing out and handwriting in the new expiration dates on our thawed plasma products. I believe this is acceptable.
  13. GilTphoto, I hate to say it but it sounds like your problem is a personnel one. One of our QA monitors is 'procedure not followed,' as it really is a serious problem. If your employees are not following your procedure (if your procedure clearly states what you are saying should be done) then you may have to go to disciplinary action.
  14. Sorry. I meant to say that I aggree with vsummerville.
  15. I agree. If there is a fair amount of patient plasma and you don't want to waste a lot of antisera you can use the patient plasma to narrow down the amount of units you have to test with the commercial antisera. This is in one of our procedures and we don't do QC on the patient plasma.
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