Cliff

I never was any good at Haematology!!!!!!!!!!

I attached a few SOPs and a flowchart.
Please let me know if you need other items.
E-1-5_Identifying Cold Antibodies.docxE-4-6_Cold Autoadsorption.docxE-4-5_Cold Absorption Using RESt®.docxE-10-3_Cold Antibody Workup Process Flow.docx

Even worse news today from Sydney, with the horrific knife attack and multiple fatalities.  It all seems so unreal, but deepest commiserations to all concerned, including friends, colleagues and family of those concerned.

Thank goodness for the extreme bravery of the lady police officer who saved so many lives by shooting dead the perpetrator.

I hope all of our friends and colleagues in Australia are safe from the awful floods that are being reported from there today.

Hi @Pamo,
There are a few options.
If you subscribe to a proficiency testing program, you can often save what they send you.  WARNING - do not use these samples until after you have received the results if you are a CLIA lab. You can spike your training samples with commercial antisera.  These don't always react as expected / hoped for. In my opinion, the best option is to save a recent prior patient sample that is no longer needed or expired. Commercial samples are also available, such as this from Hemo bioscience.

Aww I failed 😞 
 

Great job, we got 20 new newsletter subscribers in March.

Yes, it did change.  I cannot remember when.  It made a huge difference for us.

Not many have my option.  My wife has an Anti-D, an Anti-K and for a short time a detectible Anti-s.  I would just draw some of her blood every so often.  

In the Reference Laboratory I worked in (in the UK, NHSBT-Tooting Centre in London), we would freeze any useful samples from both patients and donors (although the latter were quite rare), but we also belonged to a scheme named SCARF (Serum, Cells And Rare Fluids).  I must confess that, having retired in late 2016, I'm not certain that SCARF is still going, or, come to that, how much it costs to join.

One thing that I would caution against, and that is diluting a "strong" antibody to make a "weak" antibody (although this is far more important when trying to make a "weak antibody" to use as a control (for example, for an IAT), as a "strong" antibody has a completely different equilibrium constant (although this may not be too important if you just use them for teaching).

Hi @Pamo,
There are a few options.
If you subscribe to a proficiency testing program, you can often save what they send you.  WARNING - do not use these samples until after you have received the results if you are a CLIA lab. You can spike your training samples with commercial antisera.  These don't always react as expected / hoped for. In my opinion, the best option is to save a recent prior patient sample that is no longer needed or expired. Commercial samples are also available, such as this from Hemo bioscience.

It is with huge regret that I heard today that Imelda Bromilow died towards the end of February.


 

Great news.

Your score is 86.28, higher than 89.25% of the people who have completed this task
Every word I thought of I could somehow trace to another word I had already logged! Very tricky

Anemias and Myeloid Malignancies
Anemias and Myeloid Malignancies
https://academic.oup.com/book/24332/chapter/187167821
Submitter Cliff Category HemeLabTalk Submitted 02/12/2024  

Exciting news, we're only halfway through the month and have achieved the initial goal!  We have 56 responses.
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Thank you!!!

The person on the top is very special to me. 
Happy birthday

And here we are after just one week.  Getting very close!

And here we are after just one week.  Getting very close!

I just answered this question.
 
My Score FAIL That's embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Thank you Cliff! Sorry, I didn't see this reply sooner. Thanks again

That's odd. 
I was under the impression (possibly false) that PayPal was only required for me.
Anyhow, I just added Stripe payment processing.  When you get to the checkout, you can choose Stripe or PayPal.
I appreciate your support!

I attached a few SOPs and a flowchart.
Please let me know if you need other items.
E-1-5_Identifying Cold Antibodies.docxE-4-6_Cold Autoadsorption.docxE-4-5_Cold Absorption Using RESt®.docxE-10-3_Cold Antibody Workup Process Flow.docx

or 12. 
As I mentioned, it is imperfect data, but overall, I think it likely reflects our staffing ages.

Thanks Cliff, that is some interesting data.  When I was working in Utah there was a push for licensing Clinical Laboratory Scientists every couple of years in the state legislature.  What I found most interesting, surprising and some what alarming was that the most strident lobbying opposition came from physician groups.  My assumption was that they did not want to have to pay for qualified people to do the testing in their office and clinic labs.