consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history. 2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects: a miscellaneous discussion. Origin of miscellaneous.
exists and is an alternate of . When you store human blood and its components, there's little or no room for error. Red cells and whole blood, for instance, must be maintained strictly within the range of 1.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius or 33.8 F to 42.8 F, with little or no tolerance for exceptions.
ï§ The temperature of patient food refrigerators must be kept at or below 33 0 - 40 0 F. ï§ The temperatures at which drugs are usually refrigerated should be maintained thermostatically between 36 o F â 46 o F (2 o and 8 0 C) and freezers at temperatures between -10 0 C and -20 0 C (-4 0 F and 14 0 F). Food for employees shall not be stored in the patient food refrigerator. ï· Medicine or drug refrigerators should be kept solely for the purpose of storing medications that require refrigeration according to manufacturerâs instructions. ï· Refrigerators for storage of blood should contain only blood and blood products.