What is your hospital's procedure for dealing with IgA deficient patients?  Do you have the providers prove that the patients are IgA deficient by the most sensitive testing methods, and/or have the antibody to IgA before ordering products such as IgA deficient plasma?  Also, what is your procedure for washing platelets?  What sort of testing does your facility use for testing for IgA deficiency?

 

 

In the UK, unless there is a real life-threatening problem, you will not get IgA deficient blood components unless IgA deficiency and anti-IgA is proven.