The new Blood Temp10 blood bag indicator has been designed and manufactured by Timestrip in response to the need to reduce wastage of blood stocks, discarded through uncertainty about temperature breaches incurred when bags are in use and removed from carefully controlled refrigeration storage units in blood banks.
Adapting its highly accurate temperature monitoring technology, Timestrip has been able to make a small, finger pressure-activated label that can be applied to blood bags the moment they are taken out of refrigeration units and packed into cool boxes for use in theatre or by emergency response teams.
Once active, the labels show clearly and irreversibly when the core temperature of individual blood bags has breached the regulatory 100C/500F temperature abuse point, above which blood cannot be returned to the blood bank for future use.
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