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I work in the UK, so we are not governed by AABB 6.2.4, but what I would say is, why have different methods available, if you expect EXACTLY the same results from each (e.g. LISS tube, PEG tube, NISS tube, etc). If that were the case, then you are just duplicating your work. If, on the other hand, you have different methods available because you DO NOT expect EXACTLY the same results from each (e.g. one is better at detecting this, another is better at detecting that, one does not detect what I would call "rubbish reactions"), then I would have thought that recording the technique used is essential.

We get a lot of patients reacting like this. Attribute reactivity on the Echo to an autoantibody. Do need notice cold autos coming up that much, so assume it is a warm (Echo supposedly on reacts with IgG). I'm guessing if you do tube DAT it might be microscopically positive for IgG? If saline IAT tube reactivity is negative we issue blood that is compatible by that method, especially if the patient was not recently transfused. I find autoantibodies love solid phase method.

And the above reasons is precisely why I have put off ordering new ones.

The centrifuge radius is probably a bit different so different RPMs gives the same g force. I had to rewrite procedures and forms to accommodate our different RPMs at our different sites.

Has anyone noticed that the RPM on the new workstation is 1032 rpm +/- 10rpm? The MTS centrifuge that I currently have is set at 895rpm +/- 25. When I checked the IFU - the statement was centrifuge at the setting provided by the manufacturer. As usual, I am confused!!!!!

I saw this at my annual Blood Bank Association of NY State meeting yesterday and I let them know that they forgot something. They said they would pass it on, but did not seem like it was a problem for them.

What they do not say is that the new Cent-Incub combo takes up more counter space then the old (since the old incubator sits on top of the centrifuge).