Author: BasyeG

Requirements:
Properly Educated
Trained Specialists
Experienced

Transfusion Services Staff at HMC:
*Certified Clinical Scientists
*Certified Blood Bank Specialists
*Technicians Rigorously Trained for Critical Response
*Combined Staff Have an Excellent Background in Blood Banking

Working as a team to ensure the final product is safe, pure, potent and effective.

Risk Factors:
Employees working alone manage multiple areas within the laboratory.
Errors occur when competent staff are distracted by factors outside of their control.
Testing errors can occur during a momentary lapse in attention

Facilities have adequate lighting, space, and ventilation.
Adequate clean space reserved for refrigerated storage of blood components.
Quarantined blood components have separate designated storage.
Each supply/reagent is examined visually upon receipt for damage or evidence of contamination.
Samples of each lot are tested on a regularly scheduled basis by methods described in SOP

A core team is selected in the practice of risk identification and reduction.
Risk reporting system developed, for example our Quality Improvement Monitoring form (QIM).
Actively manage the growing knowledge base about sources of error and ways of avoiding them.