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Blood Bank Inventory & Safety glossary
Terms used in Blood Bank Inventory & Safety and its documentation.
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Terms used in Blood Bank Inventory & Safety and its documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Excursion | A period when a storage device or container was outside its temperature limits. |
| Disposition | The decision for a unit after an excursion or return, such as released, quarantined or discarded. |
| Satellite refrigerator | A blood storage refrigerator outside the main blood bank, such as in surgery or the emergency department. |
| Crossmatch | Compatibility testing between a patient and a unit, decided in your blood bank system. |
| Imputability | How likely it is that a reaction was caused by the transfusion. |
| Hemovigilance | Surveillance of adverse events and reactions related to transfusion. |
| Biological product deviation | An event involving a distributed blood product that may affect its safety, purity or potency, which may need reporting. |
| Lookback | Tracing recipients of units from a donor later found to carry a risk. |
| Wastage | Units discarded, recorded by reason, product and location. |
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