The Miami Veterans Administration hospital on Wednesday said it has finished notifying the 79 veterans that it wasn't able to -More- 

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Supervisor of Transfusion Services
Cooley Dickinson Hospital

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hello everybody!

these days, there came a blood donor who consumed Xenadrine.
any of you know or suspect a contraindication to donation of blood from people taking fat burners?
:confused:

How does your hospital handle physician orders for blood? My specific question --if a patient requires special units such as irradiated, CMV neg, Sickle neg--does the physician have a written order specifiying these requirements or is it the responsibility of the Blood Bank to recognize the need and give appropriate units. We have run into some seroius discussions with the orders matching the products. Most of our docs order PC period. It is often the Blood Bank who calls and questions or recommends. Would like your thoughts and input.

Does a unit of autologous red blood cells need to have an adhered label with the recipient information or can the information be simply attached; such as a tie tag?

I was looking for any guidelines(with references, if possible) as to how fast a bag of platelets can be safely transfused. Thanks!

We are currently doing platelet counts on our full products as well as our spilts. How many places are just doing a platelet count on the full and using that number to calculate the splits yield with the volume? Thanks

I want to change vendors on my 22% Albumin....what is the best way to parallel test it/evaluate the new reagent....????

Is microscopic examination of a (macroscopically) negative DAT required? I think it is but I can't find where at in the Standards or Technical manual it states this. Thanks!

Just wondering if anyone else went with this conversion. I would like to know how your historical conversion went and whether you have background job issues.

Thanks!