If anyone has implemented the new Donor History Questionaire, I have a couple of questions.

1) The latest draft guidance for platelets, apheresis says we should not collect platelets from donors taking aspiring and also plavix, ticlid, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. How do you now if your donors are taking these since the questionairre doesn't ask a question about medications other than the specific ones listed in the medication deferral list? Have you added a question regarding other medications?

2) Doctor's care. Has anyone added a question about doctor's care in the last 12 months?

Any insight would be very helpful. We are going to be implementing this new questionairre in the near future but I was concerned about these issues.

Thanks.

We recently implemented the new UDHQ and the way I understand it is this:

As new meds are required to be identified, you would add them to the medication deferral list.

However, since some of these are not actually a "deferral" but just preclude someone from being a platelet donor, we have "added" them to the ASA ingestion question.

We do not ask about Doctors' care in the past 12 months We did, however add 3 additional questions:

1. Have you ever been told not to donate by a doctor or blood bank due to test results or significant health concerns?

2. In the past 24 hours have you had 6 hours of sleep?

3. Have you eaten a meal in the last 4-5 hours?

If you want to discuss our experience further, feel free to email me @ dschue@altru.org or telephone 701-780-5377