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Contracted Services for Cell Saver in OR
May I ask - What QC do you do when the cell saver is used?
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FFP and Apheresis Plasma Riboflavin-Treated
Our blood supplier is shortly going to be introducing FFP Riboflavin treated, and Apheresis plasma Riboflavin treated. We have been told that the ISBT codes to use are EA435 and EA436. Does anyone know what the ISBT codes are for these products when they are thawed or aliquoted? I do not have access to the ICCBBA website so I cannot check on there.
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FFP and Apheresis Plasma Riboflavin-Treated
Our blood supplier is shortly going to be introducing FFP Riboflavin treated, and Apheresis plasma Riboflavin treated. We have been told that the ISBT codes to use are EA435 and EA436. Does anyone know what the ISBT codes are these products when they are thawed or aliquoted? I do not have access to the ICCBBA website so I cannot check on there.
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who reads your KBs?
In our hospital, KBs are performed in the haematology department. If positive, the amount of mls bleed is calculated and documented. The RhIG is then given out by pharmacy based on the package insert information and after discussion with the doctor. Would an AABB inspector even look at this process in our hospital as Blood Bank is not involved at all?
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YorkshireExile reacted to a post in a topic: Retention of records for patients with passive Anti-D injection
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YorkshireExile reacted to a post in a topic: Retention of records for patients with passive Anti-D injection
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YorkshireExile reacted to a post in a topic: Retention of records for patients with passive Anti-D injection
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YorkshireExile reacted to a post in a topic: Retention of records for patients with passive Anti-D injection
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Retention of records for patients with passive Anti-D injection
CAP / AABB state that any records of transfusion problems, such as finding unexpected antibodies, should be retained indefinitely. Does this apply to patients who have a positive antibody screen only because they have recently received a confirmed prophylactic passive anti-D injection? Or do I only need to keep the antigrams of these patients for ten years? Or I don`t need to save them at all? Wondering what other facilities do with these patients?
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John C. Staley reacted to a post in a topic: Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
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Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
Mrmic, are you saying that a prestigious an institution as the British Committee for Standards in Haematology is wrong in this recommendation? - Quote " Routine irradiation of red cells for transfusion to preterm or term infants (other than for EBT) is not required unless there has been a previous IUT". Even though they reviewed relevant publications over an eleven year period? Note it is only a recommendation.
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John C. Staley reacted to a post in a topic: Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
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YorkshireExile reacted to a post in a topic: Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
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Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
No bad outcomes at all. So I suppose your next question would be " then why change anything?" Which would be a good question!
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Neonatal RBC "top-up" transfusions - to irradiate or not?
In my hospital we irradiate all blood for neonatal top-up transfusions, and because we reserve units for the neonate to reduce donor exposure, some blood is even irradiated up to the unit being 35 days old. All irradiated blood is transfused within a few hours. I have just belatedly read the 2020 British Committee for Standards in Haematology (BCSH) guidelines for the Use of Irradiated Blood Components. These guidelines are now saying that blood for neonatal top-up transfusions does not need to be irradiated (with a couple of exceptions of course, such as after an IUT). They also state that blood should only be irradiated up to the unit being 14 days old, and then the unit can be used for up to 14 days afterwards, even for neonates. So my questions are: What are other facilities doing for neonatal top-up transfusions? Is the blood irradiated or not? If it is irradiated do you transfuse as soon as possible, or the unit can be used for a neonate up to 14 days post irradiation? Do you irradiate units that are more than 14 days old? Do you reserve a blood unit for a neonate for the shelf-life of the unit, or do all your neonates get as fresh blood as possible?
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Fellowship of the British Blood Transfusion Society.
Congratulations!!
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- New AABB Standard for Group O and AB Plasma Utilization
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Intrauterine Transfusion Process
Slightly off topic, but we don`t wash our units for IUT. What anticoagulant for the blood collection do you use? We use blood collected in CPD with no SAG-M added, which normally has an HCT of around 80%. So no washing is required.
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Life Membership of IBMS.
Congratulations!!
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K neg rr red cells
Hi Malcolm, you mention that in massive, urgent transfusions to give Rh and K-matched blood for females of child-bearing potential from the age of 0. What about routine top-up transfusions for female neonates from age 0? Should they get Rh matched blood? Or only from four months old onwards?
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Blood unit incompatible with many patients
Thank you all for your suggestions and helpful information. Unit has been returned to supplier as there is no way we could use it for any patient. Investigations are underway....
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Blood unit incompatible with many patients
We have never used a lectin panel before. Are these commercially available?