For Hospitals
Hospital Notifications & Product Codes
General Hospital Notification Letters
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- AS-3 and CPDA-1 RBC Supply Update
- Bacterial Detection: AABB Standard 5.1.5.2
(covering compliance with AABB Standard for bacterial detection testing) - Change to Lookback/Discard Notification Forms, March 2021
- Convalescent Plasma Products Unavailable (Jan 2022)
- Discontinuation of Whole Blood Derived AS-3 and CPDA-1 RBCs
- HLA Matched Platelet Products (Jun 2021)
- Movement to HemaControl for All IRL Requests and Lab Reports
- New Report and Crossmatch Tag Format
- Platelet Refractory Patient Workups
- Revised Directed Donation Component Labels
- Revised Labels for Red Blood Cells from Whole Blood
- TRALI Mitigation Strategy (AABB Standard 5.4.1.3)
(covering compliance with AABB Standards to reduce incidence of TRALI in blood recipients) - Transfusion of Low Count Platelets
Product Codes List
Specific Product Code Information
- AS-3 RBC Components from Apheresis Collections
- Cold-Stored Apheresis Platelets
- Low Titer Whole Blood and AS-5 RBCs
- Low Volume Red Blood Cells
- Pathogen Reduced Platelets
- Plasma Frozen Within 24 Hours
- Pooled Pathogen Reduced Cryoprecipitate
- Reconstituted Red Blood Cells
- Transition from CPDA-1 RBCs to AS-3 RBCS
- Terumo IMUGARD Pooled Platelets
- Washed RBC Product Codes