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i am in for cofee John.

That time on you start honoring them...

we do not write on unit. Our staff runs report from LIS and all our antigen negative units are on one shelf (~20 at a time) .

Basically follow your SOP and maufacturee recommendation. Long time back We got cited for not doing weekly every seven days...... SOmetime we were doing on Monday and then Friday which was more than 7 days so we were cited by our STAT that it is not weekly!

This depends where you are located......Try removing IS in NJ? You will not pass your inspection

We use MTS 2 plus routinely. We keep ours on board only 16 hrs (two shifts) then midnight has their own set. We rarely use MTS 2 ---After performing daily QC we store our MTS 2 in Ref. until we need to use it for patient or until next day for QC.

This is our interpretation of CAP question that you need to follow manuf. requirement.

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Most freezers equipped with automatic alarm test has low and high. And yes if the manufacture instruction says to do hign and low, we must do high and low alarm check.

NO. Until you type current specimen, you need to give O red cells.

We are level 1 trauma center and we are fortunate that we get specimen ASAP. And patient gets MR# and name. I do not recall a incident in 15 yrs where we did not have name or MR# for patient. And only two cases we did not get specimen for a while and had to issue O red cells and AB plasma...

Our only concern: patient must be monitored against base line vitals once they start transfusion. Eg. They can start trnasfusion with temp. of 102 and if the temp. does not spike above 104, they can complete transfusion. Clinically the vitals may be abnormal but if the patient need transfusion, we can not hold transfusion due to abnormal vitals...that is clinical judgement.

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This standard is for collection facility and based on these standard BBTS standard was updated and stated that we do not need to retype the unit...

Based on these standard we stoped retyping the units but we have internal process to check the clerical entry by our staff.

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That is how I ineterpreted to. Blood Bag has unit type and unit number...why are we requiring that on compatibility sticker or TAG?

That is why we went with what Softhad and did not request change. and NOW.....CAP!

Per the CAP requirement, highlighted items are added. We are using very small label with SOFTBANK which has minimum requirement. (first four items) How is everyone complying with below requirement. 1) Are you changing your label size? Thanks

Agree 1000% (Now Malcolm is going to say there is no 1000).

Only screening first as we have more negative screenings. We are hospital based transfusion services. We use gel so 10 drops of cells gives us enough eluate to run screen and panel. By doing screen, we are saving regent and the most important labor cost.

We went live with SafeTrace TX, Beaker and BPAM. We are happy and totally agree with DPruden. Even your staff training if you just do it in SafeTrace Tx is not helpful and more confusing to staff. It takes lots of time to have real patients and real orders but i made sure my staff were practicing with real workflows. Evey one was assigned two patients and we were adding new orders and i was giving them specific excercise to do on all patients and units. And the best part was nursing training. We had almost 600-800 received training in 2-3 weeks (two weeks before our go live). We were preparing 40 to 90 units/day. (for two sessions/day). I let my staff prepare those products including delivery, assign and issue. That was good practice for staff. Only part i am not happy is standard reports. I do not have any coustom reports. Is there anyone using analytics? How do you like it?

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