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Therapeutic Apheresis and Cell Collections
Making the Transition
Perspective Protocols Training Materials

Change can be challenging, but transitioning from your COBE® Spectra Apheresis System* to the Spectra Optia® Apheresis System* is going to be a breeze. After all, you've got our team of experts standing by and ready to help make the transition smooth and set you up with the right training that works best for your team. We've got this.

Our Customers Tell the Best Stories

Hear from Grant Morgan, RN, and his fellow clinicians at the London Clinic. Get their perspective on what it was like to make the switch to the Spectra Optia system.
It takes time to make the transition. Contact us today to find out how to get started.
Training
Every patient deserves a well-trained operator.
Materials
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Safety Information

Contraindications

  • No known contraindications for the system's use, except for those associated with all automated apheresis systems
  • The infusion of certain solutions and replacement fluids may be contraindicated in some patients

Possible patient reactions

  • Anxiety, headache, light-headedness, digital and/or facial paresthesia, fever, chills, hematoma, hyperventilation, nausea and vomiting, syncope (fainting), urticaria, hypotension and allergic reactions

Reactions to transfused blood products can include1

  • Fever, circulatory overload, shock, allergic reactions, alloimmunization, graft-versus-host disease and transmission of infection

Restricted to prescription use only

  • Operators must be familiar with the system's operating instructions
  • Procedures must be performed by qualified medical personnel
  • A supervisory practitioner may supervise from a physician office or other nonhospital space that is not officially part of the hospital campus as long as he or she remains immediately available2

1AABB (ed.), et al., Circular of Information for the Use of Human Blood and Blood Components. 2006, tenth edition, Council of Europe Publishing, Seattle, WA.

2American Society for Apheresis, "Guidelines for Documentation of Therapeutic Apheresis Procedures in the Medical Record by Apheresis Physicians." Journal of Clinical Apheresis 2007; 22 (3): 183.

*Product and protocol availability varies by country.

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