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True! I was once doing a workup that had both an ABO discrepancy and a positive screen, and they had to be treated as separate issues unless later proved related. Prewarming failed, so another tech following up after my shift had to use cord cells to clean up that mess. The antibody ended up being a non-specific CAA.

At the recent AABB meeting San Antonio reported on their program with whole blood out on ambulances and helicopters. When the blood bags come in with the patient to their ED, they are sent to BB so they can be crossmatched after the fact. Here, we keep segments from the units that we provide to our medical transport partner so we can crossmatch those brought to our facility if serological XM is needed or if a reaction occurs. In TX they have two level 1 trauma centers and I think more than one supplier for the units so they have to try to solve it at the receiving site.