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ChrisH

What type of plasma products are you using?  

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  1. 1. What type of plasma products are you using?

    • Use only 24 hour products
    • Use only 5 day thawed plasma products
    • Use a mixture of 24hr and 5 day products


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500+ Teaching Hospital (multi-organ Transplants) in the Nations Capital and have used 5-day thawed Plasma for over 5 years. After switching to 5-day thawed plasma wastage dropped from 40 units per month to about 2 per month.

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Tagging along with this one as our dinosaur consultant haematologist is still having us working with 4 hour expiry!!!!

what??!!! NOO!! show him/her an article with comparative studies. Send it by email and copy the Blood Bank director.

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what??!!! NOO!! show him/her an article with comparative studies. Send it by email and copy the Blood Bank director.

It's not as bad as it sounds - we're a remote and rural lab and probably only thaw 2 units a month, if that. Our stock tends to go out of date rather than getting wasted through non-use post thaw. Saying that though we did use 16 units of FFP and 8 units of Cryo the other day in a RTI - cyclist v/s car :( Cyclist survived - 31 units of blood used also! Thank god he was group A and antibody free...

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We are a level I trauma center and love it. We use both 24 hour and 5 day. We keep 2 AB thawed at all times along with 2 A's. The AB's are converted right away, then the A's are converted at the end of the 24 hour period. We have seen a huge drop in waste. It is also nice for those orders that are to give then as soon as it is ready, the order is now for hold, or cancelled. :mad:

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Tagging along with this one as our dinosaur consultant haematologist is still having us working with 4 hour expiry!!!!

You ought to at least get him/her to the FDA accepted 6 hour limit - they have had that for years (centuries!?!). If you are in the States - you could also apply to the FDA for a variance to go to 24 hour expiration (the AABB site has an example letter). Even with very low use, that would get you in line with most other hospitals. That said, we also use a mixture of 24 hour FFPTH and 5 day plasma (converted to an additional 4 days after 24 hours, if not used). Works well and has limited our loss too. We use about 40-60 units a month.

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