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Originally Posted by lori-carlson
The Blood Management (Bloodless) Program at our hospital has been asked to oversee implementation of the new AABB guidelines for cell savers. The goal is to consistently ensure a high hematocrit product returned to the patient. Have any of you had any experience with developing the testing procedures? Also, who operates your cell savers during a procedure? Are they “certified”? If so, by whom? How often are your cell saver units tested for quality in the return product?
We appreciate any suggestions and information.
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Lori:
We have the COBE cardiovascular machines and we have 2 machines in house in the main OR and 2 Medtronic cell salvage machines in our CVOR. The nurses in the OR run the COBE machines and are responsible for testing, etc to make sure the product is good or high hematocrit content. The guidelines came from COBE including the guidelines from the AABB on salvage. The perfusionists run the MEdtronic machine in CVOR and are responsible for the quality of product. I don't know if they are certified particularly but I will find out.
Elora Thorpe RN