Our hospital uses the Alaris infusion pump for red cell transfusions. Do any of you use it within your facilites for platelet transfusions? What has been your experience?Thakks for any info....Chris

you could ask the supplier to refer you to some hospitals that use this for platelets.

Forget what other facilities do. Check with the manufacturer and find out if the pump has been approved for use with platelets. I have always been skeptical of pumps and platelets. In my way of thinking platelets are fragile enough under normal storage, thoughts of running them through a pump always bothered me. I always checked to see if the pumps were approved for platelets before agreeing to allow "my" platelets to be run through one.

I agree, but I also don't think manufacturers have studied anything but the count recovered coming out the pump. I wonder if any have actually looked at if the platelets have been activated or not and how the patient will respond.

Linda Frederick