In vitro quality of whole blood‐derived red cell concentrates collected, processed and stored in a blood bag set plasticized with di (2‐ethylhexyl) terephthalate
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Abstract
Abstract Background and Objectives Due to toxicity concerns, di(2‐ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP)—the most used plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) whole blood (WB) collection and processing bag sets—will be effectively prohibited in medical devices in Europe from 2030. Removal of DEHP will primarily impact the in vitro quality of red blood cell (RBC) concentrates (RCCs) and DEHP‐free sets with alternate additive solutions (ASs) that better preserve RBCs in the absence of DEHP are being developed. This study compared the in vitro quality of RCCs from di (2‐ethylhexyl) terephthalate (DEHT)/phosphate‐adenine‐glucose‐guanosine‐saline‐mannitol (PAGGSM) and DEHP/saline‐adenine‐glucose‐mannitol (SAGM) sets. Materials and Methods WB was collected into citrate‐phosphate‐dextrose (CPD) in either 500‐mL DEHP/SAGM ( n = 37) or prototype 475‐mL DEHT/PAGGSM bag sets ( n = 29). Leucoreduced (LR)‐RCCs were produced using semi‐automated top/bottom processing within 24 h of collection. RBC quality, including haemolysis, supernatant metabolic parameters and RBC deformability, was measured on D43 (1‐day after expiry). Results All RCCs in the study had haemolysis <0.8%, and there was no statistically significant difference between haemolysis in DEHT/PAGGSM and DEHP/SAGM RCC ( p = 0.083). Tolerance bound analysis indicated that RCCs in DEHT/PAGGSM produced using Canadian Blood Services' main production method would meet current Canadian Standards Association (CSA) CAN/CSA‐Z902:25 quality control (QC) requirements for RCCs. There were some differences in metabolic in vitro quality measures, and RBCs in DEHT/PAGGSM were slightly less deformable (lower maximum elongation index [EI MAX ]) and required larger amounts of force ( K EI ) to physically deform. Conclusion RBCs have acceptable in vitro quality at expiry in DEHT/PAGGSM, supporting a 42‐day shelf life.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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