Mary

Sending them out to the Blood Center Reference Lab.

Another complication to having these post as a historical type is when the weak D cannot be determined due to a positive direct coombs test.

Sounds good, except prelabeled empty tubes are scary. We only allow labelling on filled tubes at the bedside.

I would be interested in hearing how others handle a patient with immume Anti-D. Do you perform coombs crosmatches on these patients? Do you confirm that the units are weak D negative?

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My hospital uses Midas to record untoward events. I use it as well for Blood Bank events. The program has quite a few negative aspects. The one that bugs me is when you make an entry, it doesn't not send a notification to the location involved.

I agree with you. We would see more RhIg failures if this was true. We do the post partum work up the next morning with the hemoglobin draw. Been doing this for 30 years and haven't seen a failure.

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Thanks. I read that.

I would be interested to hear opinions about the outdate change back to 5 days for plateletpheresis.

We do the same as bbbirder, but I am thinking of not stocking the poly because we have to buy 10 vials, and running both the IgG and C3 when we do DATs on adults.

Hear, hear!

There is a new company starting up:Alba Bioscience, but they don't carry everything.

Last year Immucor antisera was much cheaper.

Thanks.

We also have the clinican sign a release form for transfusion of blood which is incompatible by "in vitro" testing. Sometimes that changes their mind!

Do you have to notify the FDA if you are going to start extending the expiration date to 5 days?

Is it molecular? Expensive? Time consuming?

Did you have to advise the FDA when you started extending the expiration date beyond 24 hours?

Why do you do it STAT?

Does it matter how many units the patient has received?

Thank you.

I am interested in your policies for switching a patient back to his own blood group (i.e. Group A) after receiving Group O units. How soon do you switch back, after how many Group O units, what patient testing do you do? Packed RBCs have negligible plasma on them. A nearby hospital switches patients back regardless of how many Group O units they have received. Mary

YOu can access the AABB Forums on the website:aabb.org.You may have to be a member of the American Assocation of Blood Banks.

Just recently. Keep us posted on what Ortho says.