ASCP HEMATOLOGY POLANSKY CARDS
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+ PREMIUM RESOURCE
●● Hgb/Hct for Allogenic Donations
Answer: Hgb >/= 12.5 g/dL
Hct >/= 38%
●● Hgb/Hct for Autologous Donations
Answer: Hgb >/= 11 g/dL
Hct >/= 33%
●● Temp for Allogenic Donation
Answer: </= 37.5C
●● Temp for Autologous Donation
Answer: As determined by medical director. Bactermia is cause for
deferral
●● Venipuncture site for Allogenic Donation
Answer: No infectious skin disease or scars indicative of drug use
,●● Venipuncture site for Autologous Donation
Answer: As determined by medical director
●● Donor Deferrals: 2 days
Answer: Aspirin, if donor is sole source of platelets
●● Donor Deferral: 2 weeks
Answer: Measles, mumps, polio, yellow fever vaccines
●● Donor Deferral: 4 weeks
Answer: Rubella, chicken pox (varicella zoster) vaccine
●● Donor Deferral: 6 weeks
Answer: Pregnancy
●● Donor Deferral: 8 weeks
Answer: Whole blood donation
●● Donor Deferral: 12 months
Answer: - Syphilis
- Gonorrhea
- Mucous membrane exposure to blood
,- Skin penetration with sharp contaminated with blood or body fluids
- Household or sexual contact with individual with hepatitis
- Sexual contact with individual with HIV or at high risk
- Incarceration in correctional facility for >72 consecutive hours
- Travel to Iraq or are endemic for malaria
- Recipient of blood, blood components, plasma derived clotting facto
concentrates, or transplant
●● Donor Deferral: 3 years
Answer: Malaria, or from an area endemic for malaria
●● Donor Deferral: Permanent
Answer: - Parenteral drug use
- Family history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Treatment with pituitary GH of human origin
- Viral hepatitis after 11th birthday
- Confirmed positive HBsAg
- Repeatedly reactive anti-HBc on >1 occasion
- Repeatedly reactive HTLV on >1 occasion
- Present or past clinical or lab evidence of infection with HIV, HCV,
HTLV
- History of babesiosis or Chaga's disease
, ●● Collection of Whole Blood: Skin prep
Answer: Aseptic method (ex = povidone iodine scrub)
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Max volume
Answer: 450mL +/- 10% or
500 mL +/- 10%
depends on collection bag
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Low volume
Answer: 300-404 mL in 450mL bag or 333-449 in 500mL bag. Labeled
"low volume." RBCs may be transfused, but other components shouldn't
be prepared because of abnormal anticoagulant to plasma ratio
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Time
Answer: Usually < 10 min. If > 15-20 min, unit may not be suitable for
preparation of platelets, or plasma.
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Samples for testing
Answer: From diversion pouch or by 2nd phlebotomy
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Storage temp of unit between collection
and processing
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+ PREMIUM RESOURCE
●● Hgb/Hct for Allogenic Donations
Answer: Hgb >/= 12.5 g/dL
Hct >/= 38%
●● Hgb/Hct for Autologous Donations
Answer: Hgb >/= 11 g/dL
Hct >/= 33%
●● Temp for Allogenic Donation
Answer: </= 37.5C
●● Temp for Autologous Donation
Answer: As determined by medical director. Bactermia is cause for
deferral
●● Venipuncture site for Allogenic Donation
Answer: No infectious skin disease or scars indicative of drug use
,●● Venipuncture site for Autologous Donation
Answer: As determined by medical director
●● Donor Deferrals: 2 days
Answer: Aspirin, if donor is sole source of platelets
●● Donor Deferral: 2 weeks
Answer: Measles, mumps, polio, yellow fever vaccines
●● Donor Deferral: 4 weeks
Answer: Rubella, chicken pox (varicella zoster) vaccine
●● Donor Deferral: 6 weeks
Answer: Pregnancy
●● Donor Deferral: 8 weeks
Answer: Whole blood donation
●● Donor Deferral: 12 months
Answer: - Syphilis
- Gonorrhea
- Mucous membrane exposure to blood
,- Skin penetration with sharp contaminated with blood or body fluids
- Household or sexual contact with individual with hepatitis
- Sexual contact with individual with HIV or at high risk
- Incarceration in correctional facility for >72 consecutive hours
- Travel to Iraq or are endemic for malaria
- Recipient of blood, blood components, plasma derived clotting facto
concentrates, or transplant
●● Donor Deferral: 3 years
Answer: Malaria, or from an area endemic for malaria
●● Donor Deferral: Permanent
Answer: - Parenteral drug use
- Family history of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
- Treatment with pituitary GH of human origin
- Viral hepatitis after 11th birthday
- Confirmed positive HBsAg
- Repeatedly reactive anti-HBc on >1 occasion
- Repeatedly reactive HTLV on >1 occasion
- Present or past clinical or lab evidence of infection with HIV, HCV,
HTLV
- History of babesiosis or Chaga's disease
, ●● Collection of Whole Blood: Skin prep
Answer: Aseptic method (ex = povidone iodine scrub)
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Max volume
Answer: 450mL +/- 10% or
500 mL +/- 10%
depends on collection bag
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Low volume
Answer: 300-404 mL in 450mL bag or 333-449 in 500mL bag. Labeled
"low volume." RBCs may be transfused, but other components shouldn't
be prepared because of abnormal anticoagulant to plasma ratio
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Time
Answer: Usually < 10 min. If > 15-20 min, unit may not be suitable for
preparation of platelets, or plasma.
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Samples for testing
Answer: From diversion pouch or by 2nd phlebotomy
●● Collection of Whole Blood: Storage temp of unit between collection
and processing
