What is your hospital's policy on armband expiration for outpatient transfusion? Do you allow them to be drawn one day for testing and transfused the next, even though they are not inpatient? Does your hospital allow patient's to wear their armband from their inpatient stay home to be used for a routine outpatient transfusion the next day? What if they came in through the ER and received blood, would you allow them to have a routine transfusion the next day in outpatient on the specimen from the night before? The patients receiving outpatient transfusions here are typically oncology/chronic anemia patients that come fairly regularly. Any regulation references on this subject would be appreciated!