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Do keep us updated. I am sure we are all looking forward to news of a healthy baby

My facility also has HCLL/Epic. We have manila folders/envelopes to keep full workups on patients with antibody histories. You can always refer to the full panels and order of testing when doing crossmatches or new workups. Filing cabinets sort them alphabetically, and recently we purged folders of patients who were pretty old. Theoretically, anyone could go fully digital, but it's a downtime record for now. We have a backup server that stores preliminary testing data that we check periodically throughout the day to see if T/S information crossed over. That way, if HCLL is down, you can see typing results there. No paper records exist for patients without antibodies.

Hi, I am currently Co-lead of blood bank of a medium sized hospital in central IL. While I have been a generalist MLT (with blood banking) for 14 years, I am currently going back for my bachelors and will be shopping for an SBB program. I guess I finally decided what I wanted to be when I grew up Looking forward to learning and sharing here.

Weekly ultrasounds and nst thru biweekly appts. Most recent ultrasound showed no signs of hydrops or any other issues thankfully, aside from 1.7 MoM, next day another ultrasound MoM dropped to 1.3. Could need IUT Between now (32 weeks) and 34 weeks depending on how these numbers change, after that will just induce if needed, will be induced before 37 weeks for sure at Mfm hospital with nicu. Re-ran titer - 1:256 (said they don’t dilute further beyond this). Given it was negative at 13 weeks, they have no idea how it happened given it was previously negative and no reason for it to have ever been positive. MFM said I’m only the second he’s ever had to have this in a first pregnancy. Doc said lab that ran the original bloodwork has changed their procedures bc of this case, so that is good!

Can I just point out here that no one serological test, or even combination of tests will detect all weak / variant Ds . And that includes women who test D+ but actually have a partial D and may make anti-D antibodies. It is SO important to know your reagents, and know what your anti-D reagents will and will not detect

We have a order for emergency uncrossmatch blood in EPIC and it has an electronic signature attached to the order so no other signature needed. How the IR department built it I don't know. And a phone call is still required as there are times the order was placed in error (darn residents) and the fact that when an order prints we don't necessarily jump to see what just printed .