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Oh, sorry. Yes. Low titer anti-A and anti-B, group O Whole blood. This is probably a question for the lvl 1 trauma centers. Or alternatively, does anyone have maximum out of group limits for emergency release? And if so, what's the time frame on that?

Anyone else use LowT WB for emergency release or MTP? Our current facility SOP states a maxiumum of 4 WB units to be issued. However, it doesn't list a time frame. I'm having trouble finding any study or recommendation on when a patient would next be allowed to receive WB. Never? For the life of the current specimen? For the current admission? 24 hrs? 90 days? Anyone know? I'm also making the assumption that this would be for those patients who are not Opos if all we issue is Opos WB. Is there any reason we would have to stop at 4 Opos WB units if the patient is Opos?

Thank you! Got some great lay out ideas! much better than what I currently have. Seems like the last person in my position had a very "horizontal" brain where I am a "vertical" kind of person. Haha!

Thanks everyone for the feedback! ACHC looks like a great alternative to CAP for many reasons. Might investigate that route.

If you had grant money available to apply for, to be used in the blood bank... what would you use it on and why? Let's assume all your current equipment is functional and doesn't necessarily need replacing. Looking for ideas.

@jshepherd Would you be willing to connect my IT manager and I to someone who can give some tips on the extraction? We're trying to see if this is possible for us to do but have hit a roadblock and Soft can't help yet since the contract is in legal.

There's been a debate over dropping CAP accreditation after the VA did it. Has anyone done this? Please share any pros/cons you experienced. Right now we can only speculate. That would leave us with Joint Commission, CLIA/FDA, and AABB.

Thank you! Do you just not offer it in house anymore?

I've used Excel for this for many years and at different facilities. Never had inspectors questions digital initials/dates as we have change tracking and correction clearly outlined in SOP and turned on change tracking in Excel, with edits logged at the bottom of the form. I find it so nice because you can add conditional formatting such as the QC result can turn red if not within range and it is so much easier for me to do review without having to gather everything. Lab Director review can be done at their desk or remotely as well! It's very convenient.

Thank you for the info! Very reassuring about trying it in house. So far one quote I received was $40k and 4 months, for under 60k patients. It's not even a GB of data, so I think that's wild! I may have to reach out again as we get more into it!

Does anyone have a good titer result form they'd be willing to share for me to edit? Mainly for prenatal use. I was hoping the AABB service manual would have one, but I don't see it. I'm working with a horrible one and the more I edit, the more I just need something new. Curious to see more efficient ways to go about documenting this, as I plan to turn it into a digital form.

When I did the blood bank lab at University of Kentucky, there were ~20-25 students on site and~6-10 at an extension program at the far end of the state. I can answer about that program, but it has been a couple years since I was involved. They were at a point of growth where they could get more students, but it would require teaching more than one section per class. What would you like to know? I also organized the student rotations for all lab sections with the University hospital. I can tell you what I know about that as well.

I am aware of the format and file type needed by Softbank. My concern is how to extract it in the first place. Haemonetics is being less thank helpful. IT would like some guidance by someone with experience. We want to make sure it is or isn't doable in house before we spend money on a third party.

Our blood bank is exploring a move to Softbank. However, the build quote only includes the upload and verification of archival data. We have to supply them with the archival data. One route to obtain this is "through internal IT resources." Wondering if anyone has any experiencing extracting data from Safetrace/HBB for use in Softbank.