What are your hospital's policies on type and screens for patients with no blood bank history?

Discusson

Im a fairly new tech and in both the hospital I did clinicals at and the hospital I work now, its policy that if a patient does not have a blood bank history with our hospital system, we require two samples drawn at two separate times, one for the type and screen and the other for a confirmation. The rationale behind it is related to patient safety and preventing preanalytic errors and I assumed that it was a universal thing.

Today I learned that it is not! (You can look in my post history to see me learn this in real time lmao) so now Im curious how many of you have different policies? It did always seem really rough to have to stick the patient twice and now Im seeing that that isnt even a thing at many places.

Posted Oct 14, 2025, 12:53 PM UTC

5182
Loading comments…