Convalescent Plasma

[kimblain]

What are your facilities doing with CCP that isn't labeled as High Titer?  We have stocked CCP that isn't labeled as such

[carolyn swickard]

Currently we are just holding on to it.  We can't relabel it ourselves for FFP use - not allowed.  Our distribution center is not taking them back nor are they testing them.  The units apparently belong to the govt agency that organized the whole program.

We can choose to use them if our distributor can not supply a High-titer unit (in very short supply), but titer values have not been good in our region, so it wouldn't have a good chance of being a High titer unit with just a random pick from current CCP units (not tested).

[Kelly Guenthner]

23 hours ago, carolyn swickard said:

Currently we are just holding on to it.  We can't relabel it ourselves for FFP use - not allowed.  Our distribution center is not taking them back nor are they testing them.  The units apparently belong to the govt agency that organized the whole program.

We can choose to use them if our distributor can not supply a High-titer unit (in very short supply), but titer values have not been good in our region, so it wouldn't have a good chance of being a High titer unit with just a random pick from current CCP units (not tested).

Same!  We would only use our un-titered supply after consulting with Pathologist and ordering Provider (we're recommending that the provider obtain an additional consent for transfusion of CCP for "investigational use only".)