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  1.    Malcolm Needs reacted to a post in a topic: IHD Webinar Featuring Our Own Malcolm Needs
  2. jayinsat
    I just finished listening to this webinar. Excellent Job @Malcolm Needs. Your south London accent was not at all distracting and your presentation of the material was sufficiently thorough and relevant. Hopefully I get to meet you face to face one day.
  3. jayinsat
    The product under question was thawed FFP, not thawed CRYO.
  4.    John C. Staley reacted to a post in a topic: Irradiated Units Missed
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    I just saw this seminar being offered by Bio-Rad with our own, infamous, Malcolm Needs as the presenter. I registered and thought I'd pass the word to all of us here. Here is the link:https://info.bio-rad.com/ww-IHD-transfusion-w-registration-lp2.html?elq_mid=48765&elq_cid=10201434&elqCampaignId=30837&utm_campaign=30837&utm_source=eloquaEmail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Email 13ER EM-R-CM-385201-FY21-TCHS-AWEN_BR-JRNL-TRF News 19 Nov&elqTrackId=6ecbbea5f2bb46849981687404578a8e&elq=7c5f74470efa434dbd4351e512f7ae7a&elqaid=48765&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=3
  14. jayinsat
    The age old problem of how do you make people pay attention to the details...If you figure this out, let me know. I haven't yet. Do you not have an "IRRADIATED RBC" product in your dictionary that the physician could have chosen? That puts the responsibility on them, where it should lie. A comment is not an order and, if they are relying on that, they are forcing your techs into a position of failure. I would suggest you add an irradiated product order to your dictionary. If the physician wants that product, they must order that product that way.
  15. jayinsat
    Yes. I missed that part about it being crossmatch incomplatible to other normal donors. I would definitely return the unit to the supplier.
  16.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Blood unit incompatible with many patients
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    I would suggest running a select panel of low-frequency antigens against your patient's plasma (V, Cw, Jsa, Kpa, LUa, Bga, Ch, etc). If the patient has one of those antibodies, the antibody screen would still be negative and, likely, so would your panel if there is no positive cell included. The unit may have the corresponding antigen. I have seen this several times. Since we don't routinely do serological crossmatches in the presence of a negative antibody screen, these antibodies are normally not found until a transfusion reaction investigation.
  18. jayinsat
    The current COVID crisis has exacerbated the ongoing issue of the shortage of technologists in the field. In San Antonio Texas US where the virus is peaking, our systems are strecthed to the limit and many of our techs are burned out. Most of our techs are 50 years old or older and just can't work anymore hours. The younger ones are doing as much overtime as possible but they are complaining. We cannot fill any new positions because, frankly, there is no one. Is anyone else experiencing increased staffing issues highlighted by COVID?
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    What is the patient's Rh type?
  20.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Tube holder for reading DAT or IAT under microscope
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  22.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Unidentified Antibody, Little Help Please
  23.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Positive Antibody screen but negative antibody ID panel
  24. jayinsat
    What is the patient's transfusion history? Did you perform a DAT or elution? These tests need to be done next. My initial thoughts are you may have a warm autoantibody and, if the patient has not been recently transfused, try a W.A.R.M. adsorption. What enhancement medium are you using? Try to run the screen using a different enhancement (ie LISS vs PEG).
  25. jayinsat
    At our facilities last week, we implemented a temporary "no return" policy during this COVID crisis. Only exceptions are those issued in ice chest to O.R., massive transfusion, or ECHMO, provided they are not COVID patients or patients under investigation. The nurses have become much more compliant with completing the pre-transfusion checklist before picking up the unit as a result.
  26.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Blood Supplier Delivery and Shipping Boxes
  27. jayinsat
    South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.
  28. jayinsat
    UTMB is an excellent program. I have not been through it but, living and working in San Antonio TX, I know many CLS and SBB's that have. I considered it myself but decided to go a completely different way and pursue ministry, earning my M.A. in Theological Studies and working on a PhD now.
  29.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Master's programs
  30. jayinsat
    Our supplier is looking at adding a COVID modifier like CMV to existing plasma products. Thant was the direction they were leaning in our conference call yesterday.
  31.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Convalescent Plasma
  32.    jayinsat reacted to a post in a topic: Daratumumab patients positive with DTT treated cells
  33. jayinsat
    We are not AABB accredited. Only CAP. We do, however, comply with the two determinations of blood type. My point is, we would never issue plasma products based on historical blood type ONLY. We require a current blood type on that admission before plasma products can be issued to mitigate the risk of erroneous admissions due to name similarity. sorry for the late reply.
  34. jayinsat
    This may be a silly question but are you sure the patient was treated with DARA (CD38)? Could they have received the new CD47 drug that is not neutralized by DTT?
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