Apheresis
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100

These are the two products collected in apheresis

What are Platelets and FFP?

100

This is the title, or form number, of the donor screening form

 What is the Blood Donation Record, or ASBP-572?

100

These are the tubes typically drawn with each collection set

3-4 lavender, 1 red top

100

The acceptable storage temperature of pRBCs

What is 1-6 degrees Celsius?

100

"ASBBC-SA" stands for...

What is Armed Services Blood Bank Center San Antonio?

200

The is the timeframe required to wait prior to culturing room temperature platelets, in hours

What is 48 hours?

200

A donor is deferred for this period of time after a flu vaccination

What is 3 days if the donor is symptomatic?

200

In the laboratory, "NAT" is the acronym for this kind of analysis

Nucleic Acid Testing

200

The refrigerators in the Component room share their names with former players from this basketball team

Who are The Spurs?

200

This is the minimum weight of a donor

What is 116 lb?

300

The apheresis procedure is performed using this piece of equipment

What is the Trima?

300

The set point for the Genesis mixers

What is 490?

300

When a shipment of whole blood tubes is received for testing, this is the acceptable temperature range

What is 2-8 degrees Celsius?

300

The number of days before expiration of a CPDA-1 LTOWB

What is 35?

300

Shouted at the conclusion of the morning huddle each day, this is the rallying cry of the donor center

What is "One Two Three GO BDC"?

400

An infrequent donor must wait for this amount of time between plasma donations

What is 4 weeks?

400

The maximum amount of time a phlebotomy can last

What is 15 minutes?

400

The nucleic acid testing analyzers are named after this Marvel movie

What is Black Panther?

400

Assuming no repeated failures, this is the number of Leukocyte Reduced products that must be tested weekly for Residual WBCs

What is 23?

400

For everything from CEs to required quarterly training to competency assessments, this website is a QA department's best friend

What is MediaLab?

500

This is the required pH of a platelet product

What is greater than or equal to 6.2?

500

Vitals must be performed this many times for a donor that loses consciousness for greater than 60 seconds

What is 2?

500

These two actions should take place for an in-house sample that tests Reactive twice on PK7400 for TPx2

What is Destroy the unit, and Ssnd a serum sample to Qualtex for CAPT?

500

Once optisol has been added, this is the name of the CPD RBC product

What is AS-5?

500

At more than a quarter century old, the Blood Donor Center at 2430 Ladd St opened its doors on this date

When is Feb 11, 2000?