[Product Read back content- at Issue and Bedside---Question?]

Ditto here. We verify with the RN or LVN here in the blood bank and then they likewise check with another nurse at the bedside. The antibody/antigen history is not readback or verified.

[Use of irradiated units]

So Malcolm, if irradiation makes the red cells "leaky", why do we give our babies irradiated packed cells?

 

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Serological Centrifuge Calibration/Function Check, How often?]

We do the tach and speed every 6 months, and optimal spin times are done annually.

[recommendation for small scale for ECHO maintenance]

I got mine from Old Will Knott Scales.

I bought the ProScale LCS100, and the 100gram calibration weight.

All total I believe I paid $26.00 for all.

www.oldwillknottscales.com

[Separate cells from plasma within 2 hours]

Is there a AABB reference for this?

[Fetal Maternal Hemorrhage Screen--do you perform an antibody screen also?]

YES

[How often do you do an antibody workup on the same patient?]

We repeat it each and every time. With the number of healthcare facilities in our area, we feel that the patient could have been transfused elsewhere and could possibly "create" new antibodies. Just being safe.

[Smithsonian article about blood types]

Very good article.

[Separate cells from plasma within 2 hours]

We separate ALL of our samples from the cells. I do not have reasoning for this, just that this is the way it has always been done here and also the way I was trained soooooooooooooo long ago.

[KB stain]

I prefer to let the reference lab do them. I have been in the situation where you are the ONLY lab doing KB's, so you get all the stats from all the surrounding hospitals. That 2 am KB on a busy Saturday night with multiple traumas including "gun and knife club" business really makes one thank your lucky stars for reference labs that have a flow cytometer.

[KB stain]

We send them out to our Blood Center reference lab, where they are actually done by flow cytometry now instead of the actual KB staining.

[Low Volume Blood filters]

I use the transfusion sets from Charter with the inline filter.

[BASIC THERMOMETER READING]

Same for me, but my thermometers read in the .5 degrees.

[News: donor blood altered to remove antigens using polydopamine]

Sounds kind of like Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock on Star Trek.  I THINK NOT ALSO.

[meditech and TAR]

We are on meditech 5.66 and have been using BCTA for approximately 3 years now. TAR is really an outdated term. BCTA (Bar-Code enabled Transfusion Administration) is the correct term to use in meditech. As far as I know, all the HCA hospitals use this.

[PT for automation in blood bank]

YES.

[Transfusion Vitals]

We do pretransfusion vitals, 10 min after start, 30 min, then hourly. We know when the vitals are done because as they are performed they populate in the blood bank module.

[LH500 Auto Release for Meditech 5.57]

Sorry but cannot help you, this is BB talk.

[It must be THAT time of year again!]

Oh the joys of blood banking.

[hematolgy specimens for use in abs/abid]

Ditto 3

[Whose responsible for Removing Typenex Bands?]

We use the Typenex bands, and it is the responsibility of the nurse to remove the old bands.

[Use of collection bag although its expired date ?]

The only reason that we use expired bags is for the rare therapeutic phlebotomy that we perform.

[Massive Transfusion Protocol: O Neg vs. O Pos]

we start with O Pos for males, females >50 years of age, and women without a uterus.

[Use of thawed plasma added to RBCs for infant exchange?]

go to chapter 16 of the 9th edition of the AABB Technical Manual, specifically pages 310-315.

[Platelet Incubator on the Fritz]

by all means, better safe than sorry next time you are surveyed.