Marianne last won the day on October 3 2019
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About Marianne
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- Birthday December 10
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Blood Bank Manager
Corporate Director for Blood Donor Services -
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DC/Baltimore area
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Administrative Director Integrated Laboratories
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David Saikin reacted to a post in a topic: Deviation Reporting
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Blood Supplier Delivery and Shipping Boxes
Marianne replied to applejw's topic in Transfusion Services
And since these couriers are out and about, why would you want to have them enter your hospital and add potential risk. I think for the sake of all, this is not unreasonable to help keep down exposure. -
Due to elective surgeries all being cancelled, blood usage has been way down and short dated units are now the problem. Our sites are cancelling standing orders.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to a post in a topic: Deviation Reporting
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From the management side; involve the tech. Meet with them and have a conversation about how/why the think the error occurred.. Make them feel involved in QA and PI by asking if they have any suggestions that may prevent a recurrence. Front line staff often have great PI ideas, but won't speak up. During the conversation you will also be able to get a good feel for whether the tech knows the procedure and is committed to following processes as written, needs some re-training or whether they purposely deviated because the had "a better way".
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Marianne started following Serologic Centrifuge Function and BioRad Tango instrument
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We are looking for comments on the BioRad Tango instruments from any current users on this site. If you are currently using the instrument and can share feedback with your experience (reliability, service response and so forth), it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you-
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Transfusion competency-final.xlsx I have attached again and I hope it opens for you this time. The sites often insert a copy of the documentation into the appropriate box. You could also just type in the accn number as well for easy reference.
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AMcCord reacted to a post in a topic: Competency Assessment Template?
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Our integrated Transfusion Services workgroup is reviewing the requirements for serological centrifuge calibration. After reviewing both AABB (stds 3.2 and 3.5) and CAP regulations (TRM.31900, COM.30600,COM.30625,COM.30550) and manufacturer's inserts, the group still is not in accord about a standard policy. The need to perform calibration upon receipt and after repair is very straight forward. But for years many of the group have performed this task annually. That is not mandated anywhere and the "functionality" testing or "defined intervals" lines in the regs leave this open to interpret
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Ward_X reacted to a post in a topic: Terminology Blood Issue
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I would suggest considering "issue" as the time the product is out of controlled temperature.
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bldbnkr reacted to a post in a topic: FDA Final Guidance Psoralen Platlets
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The final came out on Sept 20th, no longer a draft. We have 18mths to implement. Bacterial-Risk-Control-Strategies-for-Blood-Collection-Establishments_09-2019.pdf
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: BACTERIAL TESTING FOR SD PLATELETS
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TreeMoss reacted to a post in a topic: Competency Assessment Template?
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ANORRIS reacted to a post in a topic: Competency Assessment Template?
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If you meet whatever the qualifications are these days, you should do it!
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This is the form developed by our system transfusion managers. It was based on a sample document shown in a CAP Focus on Compliance webinar a few years back. Transfusion competency-final.xlsx
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: Management Question
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: Management Question
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Cerner Millenium-3rd day at MN.
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: Typenex Bands: Should They Stay or Should they Go?
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jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: FDA Guidance - PLT Bacterial testing
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Right now this is a draft guidance, but everything I have read says it will be made a Guidance by this September. I haven't seen anything yet on what the required implementation timeline they might be.
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: Inspection Questions
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Marianne reacted to a post in a topic: AABB Accreditation
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I take the opposite view as I feel that AABB still adds that higher level of quality and safety needed for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services. I agree that CAP has changed over the last couple years and is more in alignment with the AABB standards, but the emphasis on Quality and tying that all together is not the same. The other points to mention are the training requirement differences and the depth of the inspection. CAP recommends their on-line training be taken prior to inspecting, but does not mandate or have CE requirements included for inspectors. AABB does have a monitored
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CAP does define the time periods. You are not required to do a full 6 element competency for the initial, but you do need to show they are competent to perform independently, so you need to have that defined. The 6 mth competency does need to be the full 6 element competency. Annual does not mean anytime during the calendar year. It is a rolling 12 month period. So if it was done Jan 2018, you need to perform in Jan 2019 (or within a few weeks). I am attaching a CAP presentation document from 2014. Might be helpful. CAP competency webinar.docx
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My thanks too! I enjoy this fun stress relief each Christmas!