Quarantine

• Certain units within inventory, or designated units that are delivered, are to be ‘quarantined’ or reserved for a specific patient.
• Unusual appearance of blood components or plasma-derived products, or an identified problem with the product (e.g. out of temperature range during transport, positive direct antiglobulin testing (DAT).

• Out of specification transport of blood components or plasma-derived products (may be indicated by a flashing data logger).
• A single donor recall, initiated when a donor reports an illness after the collection date or when another patient who has received product from the same donor has had a suspected transfusion reaction (e.g. transfusion-transmitted bacterial infection or transfusion-related acute lung injury.
• A process-related recall, initiated when there has been non-conformance with procedures or a defect is suspected in critical materiel used in the manufacture or testing of blood components and products.

If Lifeblood instructs your laboratory to quarantine blood components, please follow the direction of the Quality Manager from Lifeblood, or their delegate, to ensure quarantined components are not transfused.