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• Ordering Blood Components
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Ordering Blood Components and Products

A physician’s order is required for blood components and products. To initiate the process, appropriate hospital personnel or mobile collection staff must complete a Pretransfusion Testing Requisition -REQ9004TM (TM2028) or place the order in the Hospital Information System. Alternately, for patient care units without access to the Hospital Information System, selected blood products may be requested by completing  the Blood Product Order Fax Requisition (REQ9006TM) or for patient care units at ACH, the Blood Product Order Fax Requisition (REQ9002TM).

See Blood Component and Product List for pretransfusion testing requirements for specific products.

See Ordering Pretransfusion Testing for product requests that require pretransfusion testing.

The priority of the request must be indicated:

• STAT – product for transfusion required or potentially required in approximately 1 hour
• ASAP – product for transfusion required within 4 hours
• Routine – product required for transfusion in more than 4 hours

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