[Cutting off blood bank ID bands]

Surgery cuts off Blood Bank ID armbands at will. I don't like it, but we have reached an agreement. The bands are cut off only by anesthesia in OR. The band is put on the patient's chest (we don't have any chest cutters here) or forehead. Before the patient leaves the OR, anesthesia (same one who cut the band off) must put the band back on the patient. If the patient reaches PACU without the band, the crossmatch and all specimens are null and void, no exceptions. We have lots of anesthesia locums coming through but this still works pretty well for us.

I asked a question about barcode blood bands and I was referred to Typenex. When I was on their website I noticed the R3 attachment system. This looks like a great solution that will help eliminate your problem of the bands being removed by surgery

http://www.typenex.com/products_r3.html

http://www.typenex.com/vid_r3.html

Cheers

[Cutting off blood bank ID bands]

Hi John check out the R3 band from Typenex

http://www.typenex.com/products_r3.html

http://www.typenex.com/vid_r3.html - demo video

[Bar codes on blood bands]

Hi Everyone, I'm new to Blood Bank Talk, but I am working on a project for my lab to incorporate bar codes into our transfusion process. I'm just getting started and have no idea where to start. Can anyone recommend a band and what computer system your using? What sort of benefits did you experience by switching? And negatives that you've experienced from switching to a bar code band? Thank you in advnace