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Blood Transportation to Floors
Clear Biohazard bag inside an insulated bag https://www.hopkinsmedicalproducts.com/medical-specimen-transport-components/p/Insulated-Bio-Transport-Bag/
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Personnel Obtaining Blood Consents
Our informed consent policy states that the practitioner, advanced mid-level provider, resident, or fellow performing a medical intervention or procedure which requires specific informed consent has primary responsibility for overseeing the informed consent process or verifying that appropriate informed consent is obtained. Additionally, these responsibilities may be delegated, after an order has been placed for the procedure, to a registered nurse (RN) or other allied health provider performing or providing the medical intervention, depending on the relative risk of the procedure and the training or experience of the health care team member, Informed consent is implied in emergency situations. A discussion and signed form is not required in these cases. The provider should document the emergent circumstances in the medical record and what reasonable attempts were made to reach a party with the power to consent.
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- Maximum Irradiation Dose
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AABB 5.18 Special Considerations for Intrauterine Transfusion
How are facilities complying with the accreditation requirement to have a mechanism to ensure that fetal transfusion and fetal blood type ,when performed, is differentiated from that of the mother for intrauterine transfusions?
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Apheresis LR Platlets and LR filter
Are you sure its is a leukocyte reduction filter? That wouldn't seem to be of any benefit.
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Central temperature monitoring system
We perform quarterly alarm checks, setting the alarms off by manually warming the probes one quarter and the other three times we use the system to activate the alarm. We also compare the temperature reading to a NIST or NIST traceable temperature monitoring device at this time. Also the vendor comes and performs a temperature calibration annually. If the system has backup batteries it is also a good idea to periodically verify they still work. We still use charts as a backup monitoring system. The daily check is documented using the CTM and we also perform a daily comparison of the charts recorders to the CTM value. We do not routinely print any reports out.
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Blood product issue time
Since there is a concern as to if the units are being transfused within 4 hours, it might be an opportunity to perform an audit to verify there is actually a problem. You have the time issued in the lab's LIS so you have that part tracked and there should be a mechanism to document when the nurses transfused the unit.
- gamma cell irradiator
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Transfusion Reaction
If there is a suspected transfusion reaction but when inspecting the post sample there is no hemolysis present is it necessary to compare the pre-transfusion sample to the post sample? This is in reference to AABB 7.4.2.1.
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CAP TRM.42750 - revised 07/29/13
We had a policy approved stating that we would not be testing the low alarm value.
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ADAM-rWBC counter
Does anyone use the ADAM-rWBC counter, if so do you like it.
- Residual leucocytes check
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- Residual leucocytes check
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- Residual leucocytes check
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Prepooling cryo
It would be at a donor center.