| Date Posted |
Subject |
| Aug. 11, 2010 |
How many facilities are practicing universal irradiation? |
| May 18, 2010 |
Update: Which hospital department(s) should manage the storage, dispensing, reconstitution and administration of clotting factor concentrates? |
| Jan. 1, 2010 |
Re-issuing thawed plasma products that have been returned to the blood bank more than 30 minutes after being issued ADDENDA May 18 & June 11 |
| Oct. 12, 2009 |
Managing frozen blood product inventory that has not been completely tested using the most recently available donor screening technologies |
| June 29, 2008 |
Regulatory requirements for transferring crossmatched RBC units between facilities of a healthcare system/healthcare network ADDENDA July 11 |
| Jan. 25, 2008 |
Wastage of FFP ADDENDA Feb. 4 & 11 |
| May 16, 2008 |
Guidelines for
acceptable levels of outdating and wastage? ADDENDA May 30 |
| Jan. 25, 2008 |
Wastage of FFP ADDENDA Feb. 4 & 11 |
| June 26, 2007 |
Irradiating all cellular products (RBC and Platelets)? ADDENDA June 27 |
| Apr. 4, 2007 |
Enzymatic removal of group A and group B antigens: how close are we to a universal blood supply? |
| Sept. 12, 2006 |
A question about managing a hospital's blood product inventory when the hospital's laboratory does NOT perform any pretransfusion testing on site |
| Apr. 26, 2006 |
Strategies on timing of irradiation of platelet products ADDENDA Apr. 27, 2006 |
| May 11, 2005 |
Is it acceptable to transfer compatibility testing samples and crossmatched RBC units between networked facilities? ADDENDA May 14 |
| July 28, 2004 |
Use of Red Cells from which a small aliquot has been removed for a pediatric patient ADDENDA July 29, Aug. 3 & 6 |
| July 18, 2004 |
The acceptability of storing an allogeneic unit on the autologous blood shelf ADDENDA July 20 |
| May 25, 2004 |
Minimizing wastage of Red Cells stored in the operating room for liver transpants ADDENDA May 26 & 27, June 1 |
| Mar. 4, 2004 |
Maintaining inventories of plasma with low titer anti-T; ADDENDA Mar. 5; May 16, 2007 |
| Jan. 28, 2004 |
Policies for dealing with the blood needs of massively bleeding patients with little chance of survival at a time of severe blood shortage ADDENDA Feb. 10 |
| Sept 2, 2003 |
Management of transfusing Rh-positive RBCs to Rh-negative recipients in times of severe shortage ADDENDA Sept. 8 |
| July 21, 2003 |
Reducing the size of platelet concentrate pools as a means of coping with product shortages and rising costs ADDENDA July 22, 23, 24 & 25 |
| July 12, 2003 |
Maintaining an inventory of non-leukoreduced blood for "direct cost" savings from one's blood supplier ADDENDA July 13, 14, 22, 24, 25 & 26 |
| Apr. 16, 2003 |
During a blood shortage what inventory levels and other criteria are used by transfusion services to decide when to postpone elective surgery? ADDENDA April 17 & 19 |
| Aug. 29, 2002 |
How do you deal with competing patient demands for blood? REACTIVATED May 9, 2004; ADDENDA May 12, 13 & 17, 2004 |
| June 21, 2002 |
Managing irradiated Red Cell inventory to prevent release of older units to patients at risk of hyperkalemia ADDENDA June 25 |
| Sept. 18, 2001 |
How best to manage plasma products that are returned unused and how to minimize wastage of plasma products ADDENDA Sept. 19 & Dec. 14, 2005 |
| Sept. 5, 2001 |
Is it a good practice to re-issue clotting factor concentrates that have been returned unused? |
| May 12, 2001 |
Energy Crisis in California and its potential impact on blood supply ADDENDA May 23, 2001 |
| April 9, 2001 |
Managing Emergency Blood Needs in Hospitals Whose Lab is Not Staffed During the "Graveyard" Shift ADDENDA April 10, 2001) |
| Mar. 24, 2001 |
Policies for Ensuring An Adequate
Supply of O Rh Negative Blood in Emergencies ADDENDA June
10, 2005; Mar. 2, 2006; Jan. 3, July 16 & 20, Aug. 10,
2007; June 13 & July 16, 2008 |
| Jan. 14, 2001 |
Use of NAT untested platelets during severe shortages |
| Dec. 30, 2000 |
How do you deal with competing patient demands for blood? ADDENDA Jan. 3, 2001; Aug. 3, 2003 |
| April 2, 2000 |
Minimizing Wastage of Unused Thawed FFP |
| Jan. 9, 2000 |
When to Switch from Rh-neg. to Rh-pos. RBC in a Rapidly Bleeding Patient? |
| Nov. 4, 1999 |
Universal Leukoreduction - Hospital Viewpoints |
