Pre-op samples - 1 month prior to surgery

[kelliott]

I would appreciate hearing the details of your process for performing pretransfusion testing 30 days prior to surgery-negative antibody screen and no recent transfusions.

How do you manage the armband? Does that patient retain it or is it kept in patient registration until day of admission.

On the day of surgery do you collect a 2nd sample for repeat T&S or just ABO/Rh?

Do you store the plasma frozen or liquid.

Are they filed alphabetical or according to draw date?

We currently collect samples for presurgical patients no more thatn 7 days. Our orthopedic group wants to implement a new process where the patients have the pretransfusion testing performed with the CBC etc. which is done 1 month prior to surgery.

Anyone willing to share the details of their process would be very helpful.

kelliott@swmedctr.clm

[Cliff]

I would appreciate hearing the details of your process for performing pretransfusion testing 30 days prior to surgery-negative antibody screen and no recent transfusions.

How do you manage the armband? Does that patient retain it or is it kept in patient registration until day of admission.

On the day of surgery do you collect a 2nd sample for repeat T&S or just ABO/Rh?

Do you store the plasma frozen or liquid.

Are they filed alphabetical or according to draw date?

We currently collect samples for presurgical patients no more thatn 7 days. Our orthopedic group wants to implement a new process where the patients have the pretransfusion testing performed with the CBC etc. which is done 1 month prior to surgery.

Anyone willing to share the details of their process would be very helpful.

kelliott@swmedctr.clm

How do you manage the armband?

We do not have a unique blood bank armband, and they are not required to keep the hopsital armband on when they are not in the hospital.

Does that patient retain it or is it kept in patient registration until day of admission.

Neither, they are re-idnetified by admitting when they arrive and the armband is generated at that time.

On the day of surgery do you collect a 2nd sample for repeat T&S or just ABO/Rh?

Neither.

Do you store the plasma frozen or liquid.

Liquid.

Are they filed alphabetical or according to draw date?

Draw date. We maintain almost 10,000 samples, that's a lot of fridges just for samples, so there is a point to consider.