Fig. 3.

Comparative shelf life of PR-PC versus RT-PC. Time to release to the hospital (blue shading) is determined by NAT turnaround time and initial culture time. PR-PC have a 24-h time to release, all due to NAT turnaround time, whereas RT-PC have a 36-h turnaround time due to both NAT (24 h) and initial bacterial testing and associated hold time (additional 12 h). PR-PC have an overall 5-day shelf life, and RT-PC are extended to a 7-day shelf life in this model, and require four secondary rapid bacterial tests (one per day of shelf life starting on day 4, represented by symbols along the dashed line). NAT nucleic acid testing, PR-PC pathogen-reduced platelet component, RT-PC rapid-tested platelet component