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We require the physician to order any special needs initially. Once they are identified, we can place a patient instruction in our blood bank system for fiurther orders. We do require that the patient be tested for CMV status and will remove the CMV neg request if they are CMVpositive. If we get special needs requests that don't really seem to make sense then we can take this to our medical director and have her speak to the ordering physician. Most of our requests for Irradiated and/or CMV neg come from our Heme/Oncology docs.

We strongly discourage directed donations. The medical director of our blood supplier must speak with the patient/family making the request and will approve or deny the request. The only directed donations we have received in the past year were when the family did not go through our supplier. We were shipped the units by the other supplier.We felt like we had to accept these units as we did not want to upset the patient and his family.

We issue blood to the OR in a cooler good for 8 hours. Any blood not issued in a cooler must be returned to blood bank within 30 minutes. Our blood supplier is wanting us to take the temps of blood returnhed to the blood bank. Not familiar with infrared thermometer. Can you give me more info on that?