Eileen

We enter analyzer results manually into our BB computer system. Do these results need to be reviewed for Quality Assurance purposes? What kind of quality check does BB manual test result entry require?

how often is the plasma thawer drained and cleaned? weekly or monthly?

Thank you for your feedback. As we all know and it is well understood the link between vitals and transfusion reactions, but I needed to see how others are handling abnormal vitals while issuing. Moira Johnson's feedback is very helpful and my questions to Moira is who decided on the 101 temperature benchmark? Was it literature or medical decision. I would like to adapt that into our practice. eileen

I have been seeing nurses come to pick up blood components for patients with high fevers i.e. 101.2 and another with high pressures i.e. systolic of 176...I have not seen any transfusion literature that mentions recommended vital limits for transfusion. What is the role of blood bankers with such findings? besides alerting the nurse to the high or abnormal vital?

I have been seeing nurses come to pick up blood components for patients with high fevers i.e. 101.2 and another with high pressures i.e. systolic of 176...I have not seen any transfusion literature that mentions recommended vital limits for transfusion. What is the role of blood bankers with such findings? besides alerting the nurse to the high or abnormal vital?

It is understood that unusuall cases of warm AIHA may react more strongly with a specific antigen for example e antigen in the case of warm autoantibody. There is not sufficient data available to determine whether providing antigen negative blood in these cases will lessen the risk of alloimmunication or improve red cell survival.