Draft 7th Edition NetCord-FACT Cord Blood Standards: Public Comment Period Extended
The draft Seventh Edition NetCord-FACT Cord Blood Standards and accompanying Accreditation Manual were published for public review and comment for a 90-day period on November 30, 2018. To ensure that members of the cord blood community have reviewed the proposed significant changes in the draft Standards, and have had an opportunity to provide their input, the comment period is extended for an additional 30 days. Comments will now be accepted through April 1, 2019. Links are provided below to the draft Standards, Accreditation Manual, and comment form.
These Standards apply to all phases of cord blood collection, banking, and release for administration, including donor management, collection, processing, testing, cryopreservation, storage, listing, search, selection, reservation, release, and distribution to clinical programs.
Comments on any aspect of the draft are welcome. However, members of the cord blood community are strongly encouraged to specifically review and provide comment on three significant changes proposed in the draft Seventh Edition:
1. ISBT 128 AND EUROCODE CODING AND LABELING
2. SUPPLIES AND REAGENTS OF THE APPROPRIATE GRADE
3. TESTING AND SPECIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Comments regarding the draft Seventh Edition NetCord-FACT Cord Blood Standards can be submitted by accessing the Comment Form.
Description and Instructions for Review and Comment
Draft NetCord-FACT Cord Blood Standards
Draft NetCord-FACT Accreditation Manual
Comments will be accepted through April 1, 2019.
For questions or assistance, please contact:
Andra Moehring, MHA
Standards Development Manager
University of Nebraska Medical Center
986065 Nebraska Medical Center ‘ Omaha, NE 68198-6065
402.559.1961 ‘ fax 402.559.1951
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… 53/14). Quantitative analysis of anti-HCMV. Anti-HCMV titers of the first 1000 plasma samples
were measured in the Institute for Transfusion Medicine using a CMV and IgG + IgM test
(Enzygnost, Siemens Healthcare) in an endpoint dilution approach. …
F Imran, P Phatak – Expert Review of Hematology, 2016
… been transfused [2,7]. The ELN threshold likely considers the results of retrospective studies suggesting an adverse impact of elevated serum ferritin on survival in transfusion-dependent … patients who are either intolerant to therapy, or those who no longer have a transfusional … of the role of ratio and time. …
K Ghadimi, JH Levy, IJ Welsby – British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2016
… balance exemplifies the value of the perioperative physician with detailed knowledge of
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PK Henke, YJ Park, S Hans, P Bove, R Cuff, A Kazmers… – PLOS ONE, 2016
… numbers were compared with the observed number of peri-procedural transfusions of the … All variables showed good balance between transfused and non-transfused cohort except pre … each adverse outcome to access the association with the peri-procedural transfusion variable …
E Jollett, PC Huffman – Neonatal Network, 2016
… overall, there was an 84 percent compliance rate for following the feeding protocol associated with the pRBC transfusion protocol. … The transfusions that did not follow the protocol were transfused at higher hemat- ocrits than the protocol recommended; overall, the protocol …
Y Lin, C Cserti‐Gazdewich, L Lieberman… – Transfusion, 2016
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JE Graham, S Narayan, K Pendry – Transfusion Medicine, 2016
… Junior doctors were aware that there are strong>guidelines available to optimise their transfusion practice but struggled to locate these decision support aids online and/or to find time to access the resources. Who should deliver transfusion education to junior doctors? …
AMH Ho, GB Mizubuti, PW Dion – Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2016
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LT Goodnough, MF Murphy – Transfusion, 2016
BACKGROUND The changing focus of transfusion medicine (TM) toward the hospital rather than the blood center and the involvement of TM specialists in a wide range of patient blood management and other specialist activities in the hospital, rather than just blood bank …
EW Etchill, SP Myers, JS Raval, A Hassoune… – Shock, 2016
… transfusions in surgical and critical care populations. Advances in transfusion medicine and synthetic platelet substitutes that can be engineered for potential future applications will also be discussed. (C) 2016 by the Shock Society. …
SA Koepsell, AM Winkler, JD Roback – Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2016
Abstract The Ebola outbreak that began in 2013 infected and killed record numbers of
individuals and created unprecedented challenges, including containment and treatment of
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A Tunger, R Wehner, M von Bonin, D Kühn… – Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2016
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… 1 1st Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne, D-50937 Cologne, Germany.
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TY Chang, TH Jaing, YC Wen, IA Huang, SH Chen… – Medicine, 2016
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S Wiwanitkit, V Wiwanitkit – Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2016
Abstract The risk of dengue virus transmission via blood transfusion is confirmed. As a
similar virus, the risk for the case of Zika virus should be mentioned. Here, the authors
calculated for the risk of Zika virus transmission via blood transmission referring to the …
