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John C. Staley

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  • Birthday 12/17/1953

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    Evanston, WY
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    Retired Clinical Laboratory Scientist 35+ years with most of those supervising blood banks and transfusion services in 250+ bed level II trauma centers.

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  1. That's good news. So far sounds like an interesting academic exercise without a lot of urgency. My experience with NICU babies is if they need transfusion it is generally do to blood loss from testing. Keep us posted and hopefully someone here can come up with more ideas as to what you are seeing in the blood bank.
  2. I'm curious, aside from being born at 28 weeks, how is the baby doing clinically?
  3. Most assuredly!! She's a nurse and would not allow such activity unless performed with the upmost professionalism!
  4. Not many have my option. My wife has an Anti-D, an Anti-K and for a short time a detectible Anti-s. I would just draw some of her blood every so often.
  5. Just a thought but you may want to check the AABB Standards instead of the Technical Manual. Your question is more of a standards question than a technical one. Since I no longer have access to the Standards this is the best I can do.
  6. I have no supporting references but for me, common sense dictates that in a space that small you could not get the probes far enough apart to get any significant temperature variations. Having said that, regulations, requirements or other such problems seldom involve anything resembling common sense. Much like common courtesy, common sense is seldom common.
  7. Thanks Cliff, that is some interesting data. When I was working in Utah there was a push for licensing Clinical Laboratory Scientists every couple of years in the state legislature. What I found most interesting, surprising and some what alarming was that the most strident lobbying opposition came from physician groups. My assumption was that they did not want to have to pay for qualified people to do the testing in their office and clinic labs.
  8. Cliff, I've been glancing at the birthday list and it got me thinking (dangerous, I know), how hard would it be to run an algorithm that could calculate either the average age or the median age of group members. It might give us some perspective on the need to recruit more people into the profession. Just a random thought.
  9. I'm not sure if this is still the case but the IS step was intended to confirm ABO compatibility.
  10. First question, is the patient actively bleeding? If not and they just want to "top them off" then A neg is the choice. If they are and your A negs are very limited then stay with the A pos blood. As far as RhIG goes, as mentioned above, forget about it. All it will do at this point is cause more problems. That's what I would do.
  11. I'm curious, what is the motivation for moving from Solid Phase to Gel?
  12. So, is this then not a real and current situation but instead an exercise in, what if? Why would pre-warming be out of the question if you are already convinced that the antibody screen is negative and all you want to do is confirm ABO compatibility?
  13. My next step would be to pull another unit off the shelf and see if it is IS compatible. The problem may be with the unit and not the patient.
  14. Why are you even asking for a urine for an allergic rxn to platelets?
  15. As much as I hate to ask it but having been out of world of blood banking for a few years, would you mind telling us boomers what the acronyms LTOWB and TXA stand for. Maybe in all his spare time Cliff can include a list of current acronyms for us.
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