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We are about to go live with Verax testing. You are welcome to contact us. Baylor University Medical Center, Transfusion Service.

We are setting up Verax bacterial detection for our random donor platelets. We are struggling with how to set this up in our LIS. We will be pooling segments from 6 units of randoms and testing the segment pool. We want the LIS to create the pool id number for the segments. We are trying to keep it simple, yet as electronic as possible. Has anyone set this testing up in their LIS? Thanks.

Our facility also interprets the transplant recipient type as requiring two independently collected blood samples. An immediate pre-transplant abo confirmation is also required on the organ donor before the surgeon reaches the point of no return. This is at least a second confirmation, but more importantly this abo is performed on the sample that arrives in the same container as the organ. This is the final opportunity to intercept any abo or clerical errors that might indicate any mix-up. We have an interdisciplinary team that developed interdisciplinary policies that coordinate all immediate pre-transplant activities among the teams. Part of this was to design the form used for the surgeon to document final abo compatibility of donor and recipient

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