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Lori McClintock

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About Lori McClintock

  • Birthday 04/04/1959

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  • Interests
    I love: music, wine, books.....
  • Biography
    30 years of blood bank experience and I still have a ways to go!
  • Location
    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Occupation
    Hospital Blood Bank

Lori McClintock's Achievements

  1. 1. I donate once a year. 2. I've been donating for 30 years. 3. I work 40-50 hrs/week.:cool:
  2. We use code E0773 for Thawed Fresh Frozen Plasma and give it an expiration date/time of 24 hours after it's been thawed. Once it's thawed we place it in the refrigerator. If it's not used for the patient it was thawed for, it is still useable for the remainder of that 24 hr period.
  3. I think we have a bizzare scenario. Because of a JACHO inspection more than 5 years ago, it is now required that Pharmacy reviews our results before we hand out RhoGam. The Blood Bank gets the order, does the work, then we let the nursing unit know that testing is completed. They fax a "RhoGam Protocol" to Pharmacy, then Pharmacy indicates in the computer, that they've reviewed the testing. We have to check in the computer that pharmacy did their review before we issue the Rhoganm! Way too many steps!
  4. This has recently been a topic in our area. Some hospitals are 100% leukoreduced, some are just going to that, and some are not. The question was sent to CMS I have attached their response. We sent a memo to our physicians stating that our red cell inventory is 100% leukoreduced and asked them when ordering, to indicate leukoreduced red cells. We are also in the process of going to Physician Order Entry, when the computer prompts them to select a component type we only give them the choice of leukoreduced or leukoreduced/irradiated. CMS answer on Leukoreduced RBC.pdf
  5. We were just inspected by the FDA in January. We did report to the FDA when a product wasn't issued in the computer, and she agreed that we should. The reason being, at the time of issue, we document in the computer that the visual inspection at that time is "ok". By forgetting to issue it in the computer, we were not documenting the final visual inspection when the unit left the blood bank, so it was reportable. This occured only on units we had to deliver to the OR or the ER. We would just pull part of the unit tag and document where the unit went, date, time and who delivered. Now we add "ok" for visual inspection.
  6. That is what we do at our Hospital. The only cord blood DAT's we do are on babies born to O mothers or Rh neg mothers. When we get a positive DAT, we call the Nursery, usually they have us send the cord blood for a Bili and that's it.
  7. Our transfusion tags are 2 part. One copy goes on the patient's chart, the other is sent back to the blood bank. We check all to make sure they have 2 signatures on them.
  8. Wow! What a great web site! We currently have a patient identified as having Anti-Rh17. After preliminary work-up, we sent her specimen off to a Red Cross reference lab for confirmation. There are a number of us here at my lab with or than 25 years on the job and have never seen this! Luckily for us and the patient, she is healthy, having elective surgery in which she can donate autologous blood. We haven't checked siblings yet, but will attempt to.
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