The patient was in cycle 6 of her planned 10 cycle collection when a centrifuge blood leak occurred.The procedure immediately stops and the only option given to the nurse is to abort the procedure.Blood from the centrifuge is not able to be re-infused to the patient.The collected product bag and plasma bag were able to be immediately clamped on the alarm happened.The cells were sent to the lab.A second procedure was started up again on a new machine with a new primed, sterile kit and completed successfully.On exam of the disposable kit, the leak was found to be at the seam of the centrifuge pack in the same location as the previous leaks.Fresenius kabi was made aware of the leak today.Manufacturer response for disposable mnc kit for stem cell collection on amicus machine, amicus mnc apheresis kit - double needle (per site reporter).The manufacturing defect has been determined from fresenius kabi and we expect new kits in the next 2 weeks.
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