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Of the automated collection platforms available, which component is most often collected and transfused using apheresis devices?

Which of the following choices represents the allowable number of residual leukocytes following leukoreduction by filtration for RBC and apheresis platelets as required by the FDA?  

Following a cardiac catheterization, the nurse is unable to feel the client’s left pedal pulse. What is the nurse’s BEST next action?

Thawed Cryo is stored at _____________ for a pool prepared using an open system prior to infusion.

Agitation of platelets during storage supports platelet metabolism by ensuring effective exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and lactic acid between platelets and suspending medium.  When there are long periods without agitation, glycolysis is enhanced.  This results in _____________.

A technologist was being trained in a different area of the blood bank and noticed that the person training her had not recorded the results of a test. To be helpful, she carefully recorded the results she saw at a later time, using the technologist’s initials. Is this acceptable procedure?

The most appropriate candidates to donate autologously are

Treatment for a ______________ occurring during a donor collection, are: stop the phlebotomy, place the donor in a recumbent position, apply cold wet towels to neck/shoulders, and loosen clothing.

In manufacturing, all current methods for separation into the three major blood components (rbc, plt, plasma) rely on _________________.

Cryoprecipitate Antihemophilic Factor is prepared from _____________ by thawing at ___________.