consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history. 2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects: a miscellaneous discussion. Origin of miscellaneous.
exists and is an alternate of . When you store human blood and its components, there's little or no room for error. Red cells and whole blood, for instance, must be maintained strictly within the range of 1.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius or 33.8 F to 42.8 F, with little or no tolerance for exceptions.
If the request for collection is to the Portering Dept. again all 4 points of patient identification Blood should only be stored in the blood fridge, never in a domestic or drug fridge. Remember that you must fill in the laboratory register when removing red cells from a blood bank fridge.top! transfusion, Airway, Breathing, Circulation, send the unit of blood and giving set to the lab, collect urine sample, blood cultures (if patient gets a temperature) a cross-match sample, FBC sample, chemistry sample, coagulation sample and clotted sample. See page 5 for further information.