World Blood Donor Day is celebrated by organizations around the world annually on June 14. Blood transfusions are essential to helping patients survive surgeries, cancer treatment, and traumatic injuries. The purpose of dedicating a day to thank donors is to raise global...
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Regular Preventative Maintenance Supports Regulatory Compliance
Performing routine preventative maintenance and calibration on professional medical-grade refrigerators and freezers not only provides protection for your most valuable and sensitive medications, vaccines, and patient samples, it also supports regulatory compliance where...
Read more »Not Maintaining Cold Storage Equipment Creates Substantial Risks
Refrigerators and freezers used in clinical settings to store medications and vaccines or biologics such as blood and patient tissue samples are vital components in ensuring these highly sensitive and highly valuable products and specimens remain safe and effective.
Read more »Considerations for Selecting Automatic Cell Washers
Pre-transfusion testing refers to the laboratory tests required to ensure compatibility between a patient’s blood and a transfusion of donated blood. This process includes patient identification, sample collection and labeling, and laboratory testing to determine the patient’s...
Read more »Preventative Maintenance Helps GX Solutions Perform At Their Best
GX Solutions are the first professional medical-grade refrigerators and freezers designed and manufactured to meet the demanding requirements of daily use in pharmacy, clinical laboratory, and blood bank settings.
Read more »Video: AgiTrak™ Monitoring for Platelet Agitators
AABB Standards detail the requirements for storage, transportation, and expiration of various blood products. According to this guidance, most platelet components should be stored from 20-24°C with continuous gentle agitation. To achieve these storage conditions, platelet...
Read more »GX Solutions Undercounter Cold Storage Supports Operational Efficiencies
Helmer Scientific offers professional medical-grade refrigerators and freezers in a range of sizes to meet low to high volume storage capacity needs. Our compact undercounter units are useful for storing smaller volumes of products. They can also bring stored products such as...
Read more »Video: Convenient Alarm Checks with i.C3® Automatic Alarm Testing
For temperature-controlled storage equipment in the blood bank, it is important to activate the alarms on a regular basis. This quality control step supports the blood bank’s quality management system and helps ensure alarms are functioning properly.
Read more »Blood Emergency Readiness Corps Continues to Expand
The Blood Emergency Readiness Corps (BERC) launched in September 2021 with seven founding blood centers. BERC’s mission is to prepare for emergency situations that immediately require large quantities of blood. These scenarios include natural disasters, mass shootings, or...
Read more »Considerations for Selecting Plasma Storage Freezers
Plasma is transfused to treat patients for a number of medical reasons, including burns, shock, trauma, and other injuries and illnesses. After plasma is collected and processed, it must be stored at frozen temperatures to preserve clotting factors and optimize shelf life. AABB...
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