Adoption trends of point of issue Verax PGD rapid test for bacterial screening of platelets between 2013 and 2018 among hospitals supplied by the American Red Cross and impact on platelet availability.

Background: Point-of-issue tests, such as the Verax Pan Genera Detection (PGD) test, can be used to mitigate the occurrence of septic reactions. Little is known about how widespread the adoption of the PGD test is across US hospitals.

Study Design/methods: The Red Cross hemovigilance database was used to determine the numbers of PGD-positive test results between 2013 and 2018.

Unexpected Non-Maternally Derived Anti-PP1P in an 11-Week-Old Patient.

Alloantibody formation at less than 4 months of age is rare. Most antibodies identified in these patients are maternally derived. Anti-PP1P was detected in an 11-week-old infant that was not maternally derived.