I'm curious how many blood banks perform their own scheduled out patient and in house therapeutic phlebotomies. As far as I can tell our hospital is the only one in the state where this is not performed by a donor center, in a doctors office or through same-day surgery. Thanks in advance.

Amber

I do them . . .

Our OP Infusion Center does them, thank heavens!

A few of our top phlebotomists are trained to do them. The phlebotomy supervisor was in charge of them when I arrived at my present job and I haven't messed with it! I do, however, review the paperwork, orders, H&H and keep the records for inspections.

I perform them at my facility along with a few other techs. Fortunately the Oncology department performs their own. I wish they did them all., but I have met some very nice patients this way.

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We do them. We had some phlebotomists trained to perform them several years back, but as soon as we finished training, they seemed to quit. So we are back to the techs doing them.

We used to do them many years ago. They are now done by nursing staff in the outpatient procedure/infusion clinic. Would be nice if we could still do them. It is good to see "real" patients sometimes and not just tubes of blood. Also a good way to promote to the public the "faceless" laboratory scientists.

We used to do them, but after a patient had a bad reaction to the whole process we moved them to oncology and outpatient services. We were not sorry to see them go.

The BB phlebotomist performs them under the approval and supervision of the CP resident, there must be a request.

One of our BB techs is the primary person that does them, and as a backup for her a few phlebs are trained to do them as well

We do them here at our hospital. We have specially trained phlebotomists who perform the actual phlebotomy but it is under the direction of the Transfusion Service.

We do them on all inpatients and some outpatients. Our blood center requires payment, with the patient filing insurance claims as needed and this is difficult for some patients.

Most of the hematologists have nursing staff that perform them on some outpatients in the office.