For those of you who perform testing and provide blood products to satellite facilities, how do you transport the products? Do you use a transport box/cooler? How are they kept at the facility? In a refrigerator or in the transport container (validated for x amount of time)? 

 

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We are using Credo coolers. The blood stays in the cooler until it is hung, with documentation for the time each unit is removed from the cooler. The coolers are validated for 24 hours, though could be validated for longer if you needed more time. When I did the cooler validation I included opening the cooler and removing one unit of product every two hours to simulate how the cooler would be used for routine transfusion. We require the coolers to be returned within 8 hours.

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