For those of you who have converted from thawed FFP to Thawed Plasma (5 Day), are you setting the thawed product expiration to '5 days' (meaning 2359 of the 5th day) or 120 hours exactly?

I can't seem to find anything in AABB Standards or elsewhere that addresses this.

Just wondering...

And Thanks,

Linda Frederick

This was discussed extensively at an AABB annual meeting a few years ago. Whenever a period is expressed using "days" it would always be 2359. If the expiration period is expressed in hours then it would be to that specific number of hours/minutes. The analogy is similar to 3 days for a sample for compatibility testing vs 4 hours after pooling Platelets. The example that was used at the meeting was if you thawed a plasma product on Monday morning at 8 AM, the expiration date would be Saturday at 2359. Now getting some computer systems to work that way may be another issue.......

We've been using the exact hour and minute.

We set ours to outdate at 23:59 five days later and our software, SafeTrace TX, didn’t have a problem with it.

we set up 120 hrs in cerner..

I remember hearing that if something expires in 3 days or less, then you are supposed to include the time of expiration. Anything that expires in more than 3 days expires at 2359 on the day of expiration. I tried to hunt around for a reference, but have failed to find it.

In my view if the Standards give the product expiration in "days", it means 23:59 of the day. If the Standards give the product expiration in hours, then an exact time is required.

We use the computer date and time which is 120 hours. We generate a lot of exceptions when we convert to thawed plasma and extending the time to 2359 is not worth another exception.

We set expiration to 2359 on 5th day. No problem doing this with Sunquest.

http://www.aabb.org/Documents/About_Blood/Circulars_of_Information/coi0809r.pdf

Edited February 12, 201015 yr by trisram
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