Managing Damage - How to be Prepared: A Scale for Grading Cellular Therapy Product Integrity

Many cellular therapy products are cryopreserved as a part of processing, including all autologous cellular therapy products. Cryopreservation can cause products to become delicate and prone to damage during storage, retrieval, and transport, and this damage can affect the course of patient treatment.After a trend of damaged bags were seen in our institution, we recognized a need to communicate the scale of product bag damage in a more objective, standardized way to facilitate physicians making informed decisions and prepare infusion staff for the likelihood of bag leak and the possibility of cell loss.
Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - Category: Hematology Authors: Tags: 202 Source Type: research