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Hi all
I can’t find anything specific in any of the Standards – what Terry says is covering most bases (because a blood fridge has better monitoring than a path fridge).
If you want a definitive answer I would encourage you to contact the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM). They are a state-of-the-art public tissue bank, and will be able to give you advice about best practice and applicable standards.
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Hi Terry
We looked at storage of human skin recently, as we were using a fridge that was used to store lab specimens. Provided you have a temperature monitored and maintained fridge with appropriate alarms and checks, and provided the tissue is labelled with name and date of collection / expiry, and sealed into its own container, we couldn’t find any guidelines that specified what else could be storied in the fridge with it.
We have changed our practice here, though, and now store these tissues in a blood fridge, as that has is attached to a monitored alarm system. Whereas the pathology fridge just beeps to itself in the pathology room where no one can hear it.
If anyone has actual tissue storage guidelines that specify more clearly where these tissues can be stored I would be interested as well.
Cheers
Michael
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Hi everyone,
I have recently come across a practice of storing human tissue i.e. skin in the same fridge as drugs.
I was wondering if anyone could point me to the reference where it clearly states that this is not an acceptable practice? A quick internet search hasn’t been helpful.
Thanks in anticipation.
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Terry McAuley
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STEAM Consulting
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