Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 36 - Reportable Diseases and Laboratory Findings › Section 19a-36-A47 - Plasmapheresis centers and blood collection facilities: Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
For the purposes of sections
				19a-36
				-A47 to
				19a-36
				-A55 inclusive, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Advisory Committee on Plasmapheresis and
			 Blood Banking" means a group of consultants, appointed by the state
			 commissioner of health and serving in a voluntary capacity, to advise the
			 department of health on matters relating to the regulation of plasmapheresis
			 and blood banking. Two of the consultants shall be physicians licensed to
			 practice in Connecticut who are in charge of blood banking facilities in
			 hospitals licensed in accordance with sections 19a-A490 to 19a-A503 of the
			 general statutes; one shall be a physician licensed to practice in Connecticut
			 who is associated with or employed by a plasmapheresis or blood banking center
			 which is not a part of a licensed hospital; one shall be a physician who is
			 licensed to practice in Connecticut, is board-certified in clinical pathology,
			 and is the director of a hospital laboratory registered and approved in
			 accordance with sections 19a-36-A25 to 19a-36-A35 and section
			 19-4-1 of the
			 public health code; and one shall be a licensed physician who is not associated
			 with a plasmapheresis center or blood banking facility. The commissioner of
			 health, if he deems it necessary, may appoint additional consultants to this
			 advisory committee.
(b)
			 "Department" means the state department of health.
(c) "Director" means the person designated by
			 the registrant to be responsible for the daily technical and scientific
			 operations of the plasmapheresis center or blood banking facility including the
			 choice and application of methods, daily technical and scientific operations,
			 donor selection and care, phlebotomies, and reintroduction of red cells as
			 appropriate.
(d) "Center" means any
			 area where plasmapheresis, plateletpheresis or blood banking operations are
			 conducted.
(e) "Plasmapheresis
			 Center" means any area where blood is removed from a human being to obtain
			 plasma, its components, or the non-erythrocytic formed elements with subsequent
			 reinfusion of the red cells into the donor.
(f) "Blood Collection Facility" means any
			 area where blood is removed from a human being for the purpose of administering
			 said blood or any of its components to any human being.
(g) "Owner" means any individual, firm,
			 partnership, association, corporation, the State of Connecticut, or any
			 municipality or other subdivision thereof, or any other entity whether
			 organized for profit or not.
(h)
			 "Registrant" means the person in whose name the registration is granted. The
			 registrant shall be the owner, if the center is owned by a single individual,
			 or a responsible officer or representative when the center is owned by a group,
			 partnership, firm, corporation, or governmental agency.
(i) "Specimen" means material derived from a
			 human being or body.
(j) "Donor"
			 means any person, whether for profit or not, who submits to plasmapheresis or
			 allows a unit of blood more or less to be taken from his or her body for the
			 purpose of transfusion or preparation of blood derivatives or
			 components.
(k) "Unit" means 450
			 milliliters of blood more or less.
(l) "Transfusion" means the intravenous
			 administration of whole blood, packed red blood cells, plasma, and other blood
			 components, fractions, or derivatives to a human being.