Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I doubt that your blood supplier finds it easy to find blood for this patient. Most suppliers work long and hard to try to find these kinds of units, both testing and recruiting.I could not agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clmergen Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 I do know that they work hard. If I sounded flippant, I apologise. I have a great relationship with the staff at my blood supplier and this is something I would say to them jokingly. They are amazing at getting us the units that we need when we need them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Losmeister Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 As for the comment above - the flippant/jokey tone was easilyindentified for me... same way I used to feel about WARM AUTOS...just send and wait... jajaja!Anyhoots, am awaiting fruther word from Lisa as to how their patienttolerated the washed units.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejani Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Malcom...Do you have a link to the National Guidelines you refer to earlier?Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Malcom...Do you have a link to the National Guidelines you refer to earlier?ThanksYes - on this website actually!At the top of this page you will see something marked "References". If you hit this, there is a drop down list, and you need "Document Library". Once there, you scroll down to a bit marked "UK", and one of the options is BCSH Guidelines. The one you are after, which is a little way down the list, is "Guidelines for Compatibility Procedures in Blood Transfusion Laboratories."This particular Guideline is actively being updated by a BCSH Workforce at present, but this update is not expected to be out any time soon - they never are!!!!!!!!!!!!Hope that helps.:D:D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John C. Staley Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I do know that they work hard. If I sounded flippant, I apologise. I have a great relationship with the staff at my blood supplier and this is something I would say to them jokingly. They are amazing at getting us the units that we need when we need them.No need to apologise!!! Most of us know exactly where you were coming from and have said the same thing more often than we care to remember. We would get the same thing when one of our "little sister" hospitals would send an antibody ID to us. No problem for them and it was our job to help them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalamb Posted July 21, 2010 Author Share Posted July 21, 2010 As for the comment above - the flippant/jokey tone was easilyindentified for me... same way I used to feel about WARM AUTOS...just send and wait... jajaja!Anyhoots, am awaiting fruther word from Lisa as to how their patienttolerated the washed units....Well, our patient tolerated the washed cells well...no temp spike. All of you, and our pathologist all agreed !So our pathologist says all future RBC's will be Washed RBC's (for this guy). As this is pallative care, at this point, there is no urge to find out what was causing the spike (wbc's, cytokins, rxn to preservatives...)thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L106 Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Thanks for letting us know your patient's most recent outcome, lalamb. Let's keep our fingers crossed that he continues to do well with washed cells in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Yes - on this website actually!At the top of this page you will see something marked "References". If you hit this, there is a drop down list, and you need "Document Library". Once there, you scroll down to a bit marked "UK", and one of the options is BCSH Guidelines. The one you are after, which is a little way down the list, is "Guidelines for Compatibility Procedures in Blood Transfusion Laboratories."This particular Guideline is actively being updated by a BCSH Workforce at present, but this update is not expected to be out any time soon - they never are!!!!!!!!!!!!Hope that helps.:D:D:D:DWow!! Thanks Malcolm, this is like the cave of Ali Baba. What a treasure!! (I had not ventured into the UK site yet). Liz :D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 wow!! Thanks malcolm, this is like the cave of ali baba. what a treasure!! (i had not ventured into the uk site yet).liz :d:d:dlove it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 (edited) Ahmm, :disbelief I shouted Hourrah a bit too soon, only the 2010 files are opening. What is the PDF version of the others pleeeeeease Thank youLiz I just noted that I can open some from 2006 Sorry, I dont mean to complain, but I really would like to read your documents:o Edited July 22, 2010 by Liz additional info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Needs ☆ Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 Ahmm, :disbelief I shouted Hourrah a bit too soon, only the 2010 files are opening. What is the PDF version of the others pleeeeeease Thank youLiz I just noted that I can open some from 2006 Sorry, I dont mean to complain, but I really would like to read your documents:oLiz, as the well known IT idiot that I am, I think your best bet is to contact Cliff, or RR1 (Rashmi Rook) who actually posted the Guidelines. The other alernative, which may be easier, is to put "BCSH Guidelines" into Google (or whatever is your search engine) and go straight to the horse's motuth, as the old saying goes.:redface::redface: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 And.... there they are, thank you!!! Liz :hooray: (Glad I asked ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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