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        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:49:06 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Donor Collection Issues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Venous thrombus formation after blood donation, a very rare occurrence?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:44:19 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Query regarding pre-transfusion samples</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Issues in storage of pre-transfusion samples]]></description>
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            <title>Global News from Canada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[TraQ December Newsletter (Transfusion Quality Management Program Canada) and latest BLOG Stand by me (Musings on bullying by health professionals)]]></description>
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            <title>Comments Posted in Discussion RE: Records Retention</title>
            <link>http://www.cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/abidrecordretention.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Long term storage of paperwork generated by antibody identification workups]]></description>
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            <title>New Discussion in Therapeutic Apheresis Topics</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Fibrinogen levels and therapeutic plasma exchange]]></description>
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            <title>New Discussion in Component Selection Issues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Use of liquid plasma for resuscitation of actively bleeding trauma patients]]></description>
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            <title>2012 Annual Meeting Registration now OPEN</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Online registration for the 2012 CBBS Annual Meeting is now open. Register now!]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:27:24 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Query in Utilization Monitoring</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Can a blood utilization/transfusion committee meet via email only?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:11:38 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Regional Seminar Registration</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Registration for the Transfusion Medicine Regional Seminar Presented by the Quality, Safety & Compliance Committee on February 4, 2012 is now open.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:10:12 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Regional Seminar Registration is open</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Registration for the Tranfusion Medicine Regional Seminar Presented by the Nursing/Apheresis & Donor Resources Committees on February 24, 2012 is now open]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:52:10 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Query in Blood Product Issue</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Handling returned units to blood bank]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:50:10 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Pre-transfusion testing</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Why is an AHG (serologic) crossmatch required when the antibody screen is positive?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:09:26 -0800</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Performing QC on disposable thermometers used to check donors]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:40 -0800</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Handling an HBsAg Positive, NAT negative Donor]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:06:59 -0800</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Does agitation affect thawed cryoprecipitate?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Blood Consents: what are facilities currently doing regarding obtaining consent for transfusion?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:08:46 -0800</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Are there any new methods for calibrating serofuges?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:23:18 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New FDA Item</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Public Workshop Transcript: Quarantine Release Errors in Blood Establishments]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:32:45 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Therapeutic Apheresis Issues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pre-procedure physical exams in therapeutic apheresis patients]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:29:40 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Regulatory &amp; Quality Management</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/regchanges.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[How can a blood donor center ensure compliance with changes or new state and federal regulations?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:31:43 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New FDA Item</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Draft Guidance for Industry: Use of Nucleic Acid Tests on Pooled and Individual Samples from Donors of Whole Blood and Blood Components, including Source Plasma, to Reduce the Risk of Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:55:33 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments posted in discussion regarding Neonatal Transfusion</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Neonatal exchange transfusions in hospitals that provide Level II neonatal care]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:38:24 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New CAP Today guide to blood bank info systems</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[CAP Today Interactive Guide to Laboratory Software and Instrumentation: Blood bank information systems, October 2011]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:36:57 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New FDA Item</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Direct Recall Classification Program (Blood and Plasma)]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:37:18 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Reactived Discussion RE: Transfusion Medicine Benchmarks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A Blood Bank Medical Director at a large hospital in Virginia has a dashboard with indicators and depending on where the hospital numbers fall, the line on the dashboard is red (bad), yellow (caution) or green (good). The medical director is wondering if CBBS could help her with what percentages should be used as goals.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:56:40 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments Posted in Discussion RE: Pre-transfusion Samples</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Using intraosseous (intramedullary) blood samples for pre-transfusion and other testing: revisited]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:54:55 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Call for Abstracts</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/am/index.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Call for abstracts to be presented at our next CBBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. We encourage everyone, including trainees, CLS and / or residents and fellows to submit an abstract by email to cbbs@cbbsweb.org by January 5th 2012.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:39:48 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Updated Disaster Response Plan</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/links/disaster_plan.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A newly updated CBBS Disaster Response Plan has been posted. Many thanks to Carol Bell and the Emergency Preparedness Committee for all of their hard work to keep the plan relevant and updated.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:32:53 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Component Quality</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/pltsnonswirl.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Freshly collected apheresis platelets that do not exhibit swirling]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:29:13 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Administrative Discussion</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A colleague in California State Government involved in occupational research would like to know if statistics are available on the number of units of blood donated annually in California.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:55:42 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments Posted in New Discussion RE: Blood Transportation</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/ercrisispolicy.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Does your blood bank deliver blood products to the E.R. during crisis situations, and if so, under what circumstances?]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:50:34 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>New Comments Posted in Discussion on Neonatal Issues</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Immunohematological tests that assess risk for significant ABO Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus/Newborn (HDF/N)]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:50:57 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments Posted in New Discussion RE: Post Donation Information</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/recall_lymphoma.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Managing a product recall for a diagnosis of lymphoma]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:59:31 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments Posted in New Discussion RE: Post Donation Information</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/recall_cjdclassic.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Managing a product recall for Classical CJD]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:59:09 -0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments posted in Discussion in Blood Administration</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Use of commercial IV infusion pumps for administration of blood]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:47:20 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New Inquiry in Transfusion Utilization Guidelines</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/utilreviewrefs.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In search of references for blood utilization review, including criteria for blood transfusions]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:46:40 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion in Miscellaneous Clinical Issues</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/anemiawuposttx.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Performing anemia investigation tests post transfusion]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:50:29 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New FDA Item</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Draft Guidance for Industry: Implementation of Acceptable Abbreviated Donor History Questionnaires and Accompanying Materials for Use in Screening Frequent Donors of Blood and Blood Components]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:46:46 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New FDA Item</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[August 1, 2011 Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee Meeting Presentations]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:55:42 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Article of Interest</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction Without Detectable Autoantibodies or Alloantibodies: A Possible Role of Phosphatidylserine Exposure on Donor RBCs.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:55:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Reactived Discussion on Management of Looksbacks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Management of lookbacks for report of screener's failure to ask all high risk questions]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:50:48 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Newspaper Article of Interest</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pro/Con: Two views of U.S. prohibiting gay men's blood donation]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:35:32 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Update on discussion in Blood Transportation &amp; Storage</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/helicopterproducts.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Emergency helicopters storing blood products for emergency resuscitation]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:30:36 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments posted in discussion on pediatric surgery transfusion protocols</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/pedscardiacwb.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Using whole blood for pediatric cardiovascular surgeries]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:29:51 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments Posted on Discussion in Donor Suitability</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/cdcybmalariadef.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[CDC yellow travel book and web-map to qualify blood donors for malaria risk travel
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:40:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Several new comments posted on discussion in Donor Suitability</title>
            <link>http://www.cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/ehlers_danlos.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility Type) and blood donor eligibility]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:27:03 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>New Discussion re: Cord Blood specimens</title>
            <link>http://www.cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/spectubescontam.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Managing bloody contaminated umbilical cord specimen collection tubes]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:29:13 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Revisited Discussion on Transfusion Practice</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[How many facilities are practicing universal irradiation? - Revisited]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:31:47 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Meeting of Interest</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/mtgs_interest/index.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[2011 CDC NHSN Hemovigilance Module Training to be held in San Diego on Oct. 20, 2011]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:45:21 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments posted in pediatric transfusion component selection</title>
            <link>http://cbbsweb.org/enf/2011/hlamatchplts.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[HLA matched platelets]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:05:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Call for Applications</title>
            <link>http://www.cbbsweb.org/enf/recruit_assteditor2011.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[CBBS Seeks Applications for Associate Editor/Moderator, e-Network Forum]]></description>
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