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    Agreed!
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    We use the Immucor Echo and have it set up the same way. No reason to look at it twice, but I definitely would not set it to autoverify.
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    We use Mobilab as our normal positive patient ID process. Registration has a system where they can generate visit labels during downtime without the MR number, so during downtime we have prenumbered armbands and write that number on these demographic labels.
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    John, I agree that reimbursement may not be always be realistic, but for documentation purposes it would be advisable to have even a basic registration and document the transfusions.
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    In this scenario, we would do as Ensis01 stated as long as the blood was not transfused in route. If it was transfused, you may have difficulty getting the receiving hospital to accept this. Then I believe you would have to have the patient registered, even if just as a John Doe, and perform an emergency issue in Meditech.
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    That is a similar scenario to my most recent nightmare. The nurse had given the patient multiple units of blood over two days so she "knew" he wouldn't have a reaction. Then checked nothing and bypassed the computer transfusion program. An aid came in the room when she was getting ready to transfuse unit #2 and noticed the blood type wasn't the same as the one she was discarding. Fortunately the patient suffered no harm.
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    We use it and it is the RNs documenting. Unfortunately, Anesthesia refuses to move their documentation away from paper.
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    We require one blood type per registration for all of the reasons stated above. We also have encountered a few patients with identical first and last names and similar dates of birth that kept getting merged together. We caught it each time because of their different blood types.
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    If it is from the same supplier we use and packed appropriately, I have no problem accepting the blood into our inventory. I contact the transferring facility for a transfer form if they did not pack one.
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    I agree with the above statements. Our nurses usually get two units infused withing 4 hours so they don't have to use a second blood administration set.
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    I'm sorry, I didn't actually look at the article since I was searching for another topic, so I don't know if this is it or not. It sounds like it might be.
  23. BankerGirl
    First question is what version of Meditech are you on? Second question is are you printing the Crossmatch/Assignment cards or the IT (Issue Transfuse) Cards? We had this problem with the Crossmatch cards when we first started with Meditech, so our analyst had us use the IT cards instead and we have not seen this problem since. I have recently seen a KB article on their website that addresses this with the Crossmatch cards, so you may want to check there.
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    I had one reaction report early in my career that was only "bleeding tongue" and when I took it to my pathologist, he just rolled his eyes and waved me off. Just yesterday I read the information sent by ARC regarding allergic reactions to psoralen in platelets and they had this to say: "...no cases of psoralen or amotosalen hypersensitivity have been reported to Cerus, the manufacturer of INTERCEPT (psoralen-treated) platelets. Psoralen-treated products have been in routine use in patients in Europe (15+ years) and USA (3+ years) with over 5 million psoralen-treated components administered with no hypersensitivity reaction to psoralen reported to date." Not saying it is impossible, just not previously documented.
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