Cord blood bank manual of operations

News Children Loading Cord Blood Bank Manual of Operations A guide used to coordinate interactions with the NMDP regarding the relevant processes associated with cord blood unit CBU collection, processing, storage, maternal screening and testing, HLA typing, and data entry as well as the search and distribution activities in unrelated cord blood transplantation.

Donor Patient Confidentiality Guidelines and procedures for protecting the privacy of people who receive transplants or donate blood stem cells. Cord Blood Bank Profiles : View information we provide to transplant centers about our cord blood suppliers to aid in selection and planning.

Cord Blood Bank Qualification and Membership : Information about qualification and how to become an affiliated or member cord blood bank. NMDP Non-compliance Policy for Network Centers Describes the process followed when a Network Center is subject to probation, suspension including summary suspension , termination, or other loss of participation privileges due to Non-Compliance.

All rights reserved. Print Share Email. Cord Blood Bank Standards The major objective of the NetCord-FACT International Standards for Cord Blood Collection, Banking, and Release for Administration is to promote quality medical practices, laboratory processes, and banking to achieve consistent production of high quality placental and umbilical cord blood units for administration. The following documents and resources are available for you to download.

Read more. Carter, Nancy A. Kernan, Michael C. Wallas, Joanne Kurtzberg. Furthermore, the clinical protocols to evaluate the transplant outcome for adult and pediatric recipients of these well-characterized CBU would be analyzed in a uniform fashion. Because of the intense interest of the transplantation community in the policies and procedures for cord blood collection and processing, the principal investigators of the cord blood banks CBB and NHLBI elected to submit for publication the rationale and an abridged, but detailed, version of the standard operating procedures SOP developed between October and July prior to the initiation of the clinical protocols to be performed with these CBU.

It is hoped that the publication of this document will lay down a framework that will not only facilitate the development of other CBB but also help us more rapidly define what constitutes an "acceptable" CBU product. The document is detailed according to the following sections. Overview Fingerprint.