Standards For Blood Bank Equipment

[Procrastinator]

Am currently investigating whether or not there are any specific standards which apply to plasma thawing equipment?

[Lcsmrz]

There are some general equipment standards: must be validated for use, must be calibrated, must be maintained according to mfr instructions, functions must be periodically checked, etc. The only specific one I can think of is the 30-37 C range for thawing plasma products.

[redstaff2003]

this would probably help you try to check with the who.org and search for blood cold chain.

[ModernDayVamp]

Hi,

Not sure but it wouldn't hurt to contact one of the plasma thawer manufacturers (Like Helmer Inc. out of Indiana, U.S.) to see if their technical department has any of this information on hand??

good luck

[webersl]

Here's what we do:

We have a Helmer DH4 Model

Calibration of Digital Controler Annual

Decontaminate and Refill Monthly

Lubricate basket assembly Quarterly

Hi Alarm Semi-Annually

The manual says weekly for the deconatmination and refill, but we have very low usage and a cover for the thawer when not in use, so weekly was too often for us.

Edited November 5, 2008 by webersl
lost formatting on table.

[Lcsmrz]

The weekly drain-and-refill of Helmer thawers has more to do with keeping down growth of contaminating organisms, rather than usage. Even if never used, we follow the mfg recommendation of weekly cleaning.