Hello Again, We have a NICU that is somewhat active. The blood services OIC (previously referred to in other posts as my boss) is rewriting the policy about our neonatal transfusions. Our donor center does not collect platelets by aphresis or from the units they collect on blood drives. This means we have to buy platelets from the German Red Cross. In rewriting the policy my boss has put in that we give ABO specific platelets and if for some reason we cannot we replace the incompatible plasma in the platelets with compabitble plasma. We try to give ABO specific platelets to everyone but since "beggars cannot be choosers" we take whatever the German Red Cross can send us when we need it. They only collect platelets by aphresis and don't do random platelets. Is this the first hospital where I have worked that has a NICU, the hospital I worked at before this used to send the babies to Indianapolis if they were going to need transfusioins. Do all hospitals that support NICUs do this or is it just for randome platelets. Any references you can point me to so I can present this to him would be great. Thanks.