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Please be advised that as of Oct 1st, 2024, preprinted patient labels on pre-transfusion and prenatal testing can be used. This has been trialed at the Health Sciences Centre over the last 6 months with great success. Canadian Blood Services does accept these labels. If your facility uses handwritten labels these will still be accepted. There will be ongoing monitoring via RL6s and NCRs (blood blank) with direct notification to the clinical areas of occurrences if required.

Access this poster that can be printed in color and displayed where staff can see this.

It is important to stress to staff using the pre-printed labels that the initials on the blood tube label must be the same as the initials on the requisition.

Submitted by: Tamara Burnham, Collaborative Practice Lead
For more info. contact: Shana Chiborak RN Nurse Manager Blood Management, Shared Health

Charlie Cacapit Interim Technical Director, Transfusion Medicine Diagnostic Service, Shared Health

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