Our anti-D antiserum package insert requires a positive and negative control. My previous employer (who we've borrowed procedures from) runs a positive using Immucor's core QC kit, and their negative is alternating reverse A1 and B cells, but they then take the negative through Coombs. If my facility does not test patients for weak D through Coombs, is it necessary for our negative control to be taken through Coombs?
Please be gentle, I'm just starting to dip my toes in this whole new world of procedure writing/interpretation; I've always just done what the procedure says, now I have to actually know why...