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ANORRIS

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  1. On ‎10‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 12:56 PM, pbaker said:

    A true trauma stat (not a drama trauma) is 60 minutes for ABSC and 35 minutes for ABO, from receipt in lab.  All other stats are 65 minutes for both.

    We batch our cord bloods and do them every 4 hours.  The nursery has it in their brain that it must be completed by then in order to treat the baby accordingly.  Of course, when they don't send it down for 3 hours and miss our run time, they get mad at us.

    DRAMA TRAUMA...LOVE IT!  LOL

  2. 3 hours ago, Ghandi said:

     Lab supervisor has bad attitude and so aggressive with his staff, the staff sent email to the lab director explaining the situation with their supervisor. Which of the following answers would be the best action from the lab director:

    A/ Lab director should request for meeting with staff. 

    B/ Lab director should request meeting with supervisor. 

    3/ lab director should request meeting with staff and supervisor together. 

    Your Feedback, Opinion and answer will be highly appreciated. 

    A then 3

  3. Emergency Released Blood.....

    Does anyone wait until the trauma patient is stable before getting a blood sample to perform a screen and XM when releasing emergency uncrossed blood?  NO...I don't wait...but I am being told by my Lab Manager that I need to do this.  ???????????

  4. 19 hours ago, tcoyle said:

    From AABB Weekly, May 5, 2017

    AABB Accreditation to Accept IQCP
    Beginning Oct. 1, facilities that use AABB as their provider under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) will be able to use an individualized quality control plan (IQCP) for limited testing of bacteriology. This is a change in AABB’s accreditation practice regarding the requirements under CLIA, for which AABB has been granted deemed status. Beginning in October, facilities that are accredited by AABB under CLIA that use either the BacT/Alert or Verax system for bacterial contamination testing may use an IQCP or continue to follow the quality control requirements set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations. An IQCP will only be accepted for this limited testing in the specialty of bacteriology. An IQCP will not be accepted for any other specialty for which AABB has been granted deemed status. Additional information about IQCP is available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
     
    And there was this additional information in the AABB News June 2017

    Anne Chenoweth, MBA, MT(ASCP)CM, CQA(ASQ), senior director of accreditation and quality at AABB, told “AABB News” that this change will be beneficial for those facilities that are affected. “Once the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] removed the CLSI guidance from their interpretative guidelines, AABB realized that the burden for quality control of culture bottles would fall to the facility,” Chenoweth said. “We worked with CMS to ensure that we could recognize IQCP for limited use in bacteriology. IQCP is not required, but this will give facilities that use AABB as their CLIA provider a choice for bacteriology quality control.”

     

     

    We are neither AABB nor CAP (we were for many, many years but our new lab director dropped them both).  We are inspected by the Joint Commission only.  Does the Transfusion Service have to develop an IQCP Plan?  There was a thread on here when IQCP first came about but I am not able to find it.

  5. On ‎5‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 9:48 AM, DawnS said:

    Hello all, 

    I work in a level one trauma center that is extremely busy. Most staff members are ready to go when their shift ends. This has caused a lack of communication between shifts. We are exploring ways to encourage more communication but so far have run into resistance. We are considering putting a log at each station where staff can write down important information from their shift for the shift to follow. Is there anyone in this forum that has done this with any success? Do you have suggestions for other ways to open up communication? Do you have an example of a form you use to make this work? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. 

    Yes, we have a Communication Log in each department and it works.

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