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Has anyone had an inspection and had issues with just documenting green light on?
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How are you documenting temperature of headblock in new combo system?
green light ?
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Yes that is the one
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I just answered this question.
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My ScoreFAIL
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If you have not been able to acquire the new ortho workstation and still using the old workstation that is no longer registered or listed as a cleared medical device with the FDA what action are you taking if any?
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Of course, if our SOP is written to state that is our policy.
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We have had a physician who would not approve O positive so I guess my question should be can our medical director make decision without consent of attending.
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Do you have policy in place to cover "deviation" from O negative to O positive males and females outside of childbearing age? Do you notify attending physician?
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Would you share what your vital sign documentation practice is for your blood transfusions? EX: Pre,15 min, hourly and post???
If you have any documentation supporting your practice or best practice thoughts, please share.
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If you have patient who develops hives during transfusion do you stop the transfusion and perform a Transfusion reaction work up or how do you handle it?
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Our Blood Bank is having trouble locating a lab to perform KBK when our Fetal Screen is positive because so infrequently done now.
Does anyone else have this problem and any other options?
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Will you please share the frequency your facility performs vital signs during a blood transfusion?
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We use Blood Bank arm band and have no plans to discontinue. We also require ABO retype if our patient does not have historical blood type and is not type "O"
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Do your RN's perform transfusion verifications and initial vitals or do you have LPN's perform/assist with these task?
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That is awesome news and well deserved!!!!!
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I just answered this question.
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My ScoreFAIL
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Has anyone performed the new software update for the Vision analyzer? How did it go?
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Does anyone have a problem with mold growth in diluent 2 that is being rotated on and off the Vision analyzer. We are currently loading a Diluent 2 and Diluent 2+ set each morning and rotating the set back to the refrigerator after 24 hours on board. Due to low usage after 3 weeks we have mold growth
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How long does it take for you to use up a bottle of diluent 2 or do you discard any unused after a certain time period
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Has anyone performed the recently released software update and are you having any issues since the update or when performing the update?
Does anyone have a problem with mold growth in diluent 2 that you rotate on/off the analyzer? Do you rotate on and off every 24 hours or more frequently?
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We were cited by CMS for not having negative control for Anti A, Anti B, Referencecells and Selectogens 1-3.
We had just had our AABB/CAP inspection with no issues and felt we followed Immucor package insert.
I would add negative QC because it is simple and I could not win the battle
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Does anyone still policies for using an in vivo crossmatch?
Ortho Gel combo workstation
in Transfusion Services
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I have ordered a wire thermometer similar to the picture shown and plan to use that to verify green light. Thanks everyone for responses. I am concerned inspector won't accept light is green so okay!!!