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Hi all, I need to know what other indicators other than CT ratio be used to monitor blood utilization when a Blood bank of a 40 bedded acute care hospital procures blood from a central Blood bank and issues it to its patients. In other words, What indicators may be chosen to monitor blood banking services in a hospital of this sort? Can you share your thoughts. Dr. Kumar

Dear all, Is it mandatory that a physician make the clinical examination for determining eligibility of a donor? Some centres recommend that it can be done by a Blood bank technologist or by a RN. Who is really responsible for this? FDA mentions that a physician or a staff trained by him provided the physician is in the premises when examination is done. If the staff trained is doing it the center should have the SOP for donor examination approved by the FDA authority. Where in the AABB standards is this referred to? what is the AABB recommendation for the same thanks

Dear all, Is it mandatory that a physician make the clinical examination for determining eligibility of a donor? Some centres recommend that it can be done by a Blood bank technologist or by a RN. Who is really responsible for this? Where in the AABB standards is this referred to? thanks

Hi Can someone provide the international bench marks for 1. PRBC wastage rates 2. expired PRBC rates Our expired PRBC rates are around 7% and we'd like to improve. thanks

Can FFP be stored at - 70 deg C and if so does the shelf life increase. What time does it take to thaw FFP stored at - 70 deg C? thanks

What are the AABB guidelines on frequency of vital signs monitoring during transfusion? Many hospitals are following the protocol of monitoring every 5 minutes for the first 15 minutes, and thereafter hourly once till end of transfusion (3-4 hours) Is this acceptable? what are the views of the AABB and FDA on this issue? What is being practised by most north american hospitals? thanks

Hi, Can somebody provide me the SOP for ABL800 blood gas analyzer. I need to prepare a SOP for our POCT blood gas analyzer and hence the need. thanks

Hi, We have been screening blood donors for malaria by the conventional microscopy of stained peripheral blood smear. Riyadh is not endemic for Malaria. Most of our Donors are Saudi nationals from Riyadh. Now we have decided to replace this by Malaria antibody screening (ELISA, Biorad). The kit cataloque mentions that it is approved for screening blood donors. We thought of a protocol of testing all donors for malaria Ab by ELISA and then making smears for microscopy for the Antibody reactive donor samples. 1. Is this acceptable? 2. What are the AABB regulations on Malaria testing for Blood donors? 3. What kits are FDA approved for malaria testing for Donors? thanks

thanks Liz. I should have asked (rather I meant) how do you classify specimen ID errors based on the nature of the error (minor, major etc). For minor errors, can correction be allowed and so on.

Hi, Our hospital does not have a HIS and LIS and documentation is all by manual method, in registers. Our policy on acceptability of specimen for blood bank is as follows: 1. The 2 unique patient identifiers (Name and hospital number) should be matched on the request and specimen label. 2. The name should be complete 3 names (first name, middle name, last name) Many times when there are minor errors in part of the name, the blood bank staff ask the nurse who brings the specimen to do the necessary correction and sign for that. Is this acceptable. We have been telling them to be strictly reject specimen with specimen ID errors for the transfusion services. The staff should retain the specimen and request and fill up the rejection form and send it back to the ward and to ask for a new sample and request. Is this correct? How do you classify specimen identification errors and what action need be taken for each type of error? please answer this with respect to transfusion services. thanks

Hi, What are the acceptable procedure for discarding urine and stool specimen after processing. Though biohazard waste management guidelines recommend pouring down the sink and flushing with copious water, it is practically difficult. The next question is who will do that? The technologist or the housekeping staff? We are looking for alternate safe procedures. Can someone help? thanks

hi, when i initially posted this discussion thread on bedside blood group verification I had also a Query on a bed side blood group testing kit that's advertised/manufactured from Germany(Serafol" manufactured by SIFIN labs, gmbH) Does anyone have information on that? thanks

thanks. Our staff are CPR certified (BLS). Thank God! all donor adverse reactions we had have so far been vasovagal syncope, which our staff could manage. In the event of a call for code blue and when the code blue team comes to the donation room wont this crash cart come handy? I need more clarifications to continue my discussions with our medical services director. thanks

thanks david. does AABB or FDA have some guidelines for this?

Is it mandatory to have a crash cart in the Blood donation center. What are the mandatory first aid equipment and medication that need be in the donation room to ensure donor safety in the event of an adverse reaction that happens to the donor? thanks