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Cool. Crossing it off my list of things to care about!

Would it be weird to have an Ortho gel panel and a Quotient tube panel?

I agree. When I got here their current procedure for a cold is to prewarm everything but still put it in a gel card. I think that's just setting you up for failure.

We convert the 0.8% screening cells to do a tube screen. Important as in, we're currently living without it. But should I have a tube screen in house? I guess we could convert the 0.8 panel cells. But man that sounds like torture.

If we currently only have Gel antibody panels how important is it to bring in a tube antibody panel ?

Do any of you guys extend the dates between your antibody ID workups for a long term inpatient receiving blood. Or continue to work it up with every type and screen every 72 hours?

Oh no! That's how we store ours!

I'm cutting out Lewis antisera. The Quotient rep just left and I'm feeling mighty tempted!

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I have 2 Helmer refrigerators, a freezer and a platelet incubator all using paper charts/ changing every 7 days. My paper charts in the refrigerator finish a full hour or more ahead of the other 2 even after getting changed at almost the exact same time the platelet chart rotator being the most accurate. Batteries look fine on the screens. Any ideas?

Agreed ! i put my foot down and talked to my pathologist again and we are sticking to our guns about it.

Ooh, Interesting. I'll have to find that. Occasionally, the nurses call down and ask that I complete the DAT after we have to determined it to not be necessary. I don't fight them on it but I usually roll my eyes . I guess I'll have to stop that. haha

That's what we do. Cord bloods on O and Rh negative mothers. Or if the mother has and antibody. We don't even do elutions here. Just report the Mom is O and the baby is A with a positive DAT ..for example.

We Literally just had this happen to us. Patient was only reacting with HLA+ cells on the Screening Cells and with Panel A and Panel B. We did call the reference lab and they verbally verify it. We don't even have a non-specific or unidentified option right now. ( One more thing to add to my list) So, I'll be curious to know how you guys are doing it as well.

We keep a shelf for special screened units. I try to keep 2 O Pos and 2 A pos C E K and Hgb S negative. That helps a lot for us.

GENIUS!!

They are PRN QC for us. So just as needed, whenever we actually use the reagent it gets QC'ed.

Shucks!

I like where you're going....brainstorming. Normally it's a pretty solid Lego affect and before long they are all sideways. You think they'll let me fill the first bottle of liquid mercury ?

My brain is too tired to think Can you guys think of a quick idea to keep reagents from falling down every time we open the refrigerator ?

I just recently found some awesome reports in Paragon that make my statistics so much easier and nicer to look at. I can break it down from ABORHs ordered/ type and screens/each type of cross match performed and every unit transfused. I just haven't found a number for how many patients got transfused. Still hunting.

Anyone with Paragon, McKesson, Or Horizon Blood Bank that knows how to figure out how many patients have been transfused in a given time period. They have a crystal report set up for it but I can't tell where it is getting its number from.

We only do a culture if there is a febrile reaction.

Adding a question in here.. We provide blood and platelets in coolers to our cancer center down the street. We have a strict ONE NURSE ONE PATIENT issue policy to our nurses in our hospital. Lately, our cancer clinic has been coming to pick up blood and wanting to get 2 coolers on 2 different patients by ONE nurse. They have a policy at the cancer clinic that states they can pick up a maximum of 2 units on 2 patients at a time. My boss was thinking about having us mirror their policy. But they want to come pick up 2 coolers for 2 different patients because it's convenient for them. But I don't want to I think they should follow our policy of one nurse one patient. I couldn't find an AABB standard or anything in the technical manual that stated anything to help me. What do you think?

Same here.