Liz Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Other than Charter Medical are there other Brands of devices for sampling the platelet collect for the BactAlert bottle.Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanie Rogerson Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 We collect our apheresis platelets using the Caridian Trima. It comes with a graduated sampling device attached. The company also sells this device as a stand-alone model. You may want to look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColleenA Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 When I was at a blood center we switched from the Charter Med syringe set to the Caridian sample set. We had issues with the Charter med set leaking where the syringe connected to the tubing. It needed to be checked manually to make sure it was tight before you started and ocassionally it had a crack that could not be detected. We wrote an abstract for AABB (I think 2007) on the cost savings we had when we switched because of the units that did not have to be discarded due to contamination. The cost was about the same for both devices.Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz Posted April 18, 2011 Author Share Posted April 18, 2011 Thank you for that Colleen.Thank you Melanie, I just contacted the TRIMA rep.Liz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabMs Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Other than Charter Medical are there other Brands of devices for sampling the platelet collect for the BactAlert bottle.Thank you ITL Corporation has a platelet sampling device - it is the SampLok Sampling Kit. It is easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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