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It is essential for clinical laboratories to maintain the integrity of patient samples, reagents, and testing systems. Therefore, it is important for a laboratory to implement a temperature monitoring system that protects these items, as well as meeting regulatory and...

Proper storage and refrigeration is essential to prevent the loss of sensitive and expensive items such as reagents and patient samples. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides an easy to follow Self-Assessment Checklist for Good Testing Practices. The checklist is...

We rounded up our top clinical laboratory blog posts for 2017. Laboratory personnel were reading about ultra low freezer service, platelet storage, and auto defrost. Our customers help us stay on the forefront of what is happening in the laboratory environment, so we can...

Have a quality assessment in your future? Don’t let it get you down. AABB News spoke with actual assessors to find out how to pass an inspection. Here are five tips for keeping your blood bank, donor center, laboratory or transfusion service quality assessment from becoming...

On December 1, 2017, the Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC) gave input to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on strategies for safeguarding the blood supply from current and future risks of transmitting Zika virus (ZIKV) through transfusions.

In traumatic injury situations, early intervention is critical. It is possible for an injured person who is bleeding to die within 5 minutes. Over time, more than half of EMS helicopters in the United States have started to carry blood products for transfusion during transport.¹...

Maintaining appropriate temperature control of blood products is a critical priority for transfusion medicine clinicians. Great care is taken to ensure therapies are maintained at recommended temperatures through the use of specialized blood bank refrigerators designed to...

At Helmer Scientific, we are looking forward to exhibiting at the MEDICA 2017 World Forum for Medicine. MEDICA is held each year in November in Dusseldorf, Germany. The dates for this year’s trade fair are November 13-16. Helmer Scientific will be located in Hall 3 at Stand...

Healthcare construction and renovation projects are complex, with innumerable details that must be planned and executed correctly in order to achieve success. To make this process easier, Helmer Scientific has partnered with Attainia, Inc. , an industry leading source for...

At Helmer Scientific, we are looking forward to celebrating our 40^th anniversary and 38^th consecutive year of exhibiting at the 2017 AABB Annual Meeting. This year’s meeting will be held in San Diego, California, October 7 – 10, 2017. Helmer Scientific will be located at Booth...