NicolePCanada
Reputation Activity
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NicolePCanada reacted to Malcolm Needs in Maintenance Frequency/Intervals
Two, each one showing a picture of a finger!
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NicolePCanada reacted to galvania in Lewis A
Malcolm, are you really trying to kill Mr. Lewis??????????
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NicolePCanada got a reaction from SMILLER in Eluate testing? Screens first or straight to a panel?
We do the screen and the panel right away if there is enough eluate to go around, however our policy also states that if the DAT results have not changed from previous time and no new antibodies have formed, an eluate does not need to be performed. We have a lot of cancer patients on weird meds that mess with the DAT so it would be a supreme waste of reagent to do it over and over to achieve the same "All cells reacting, no specificity" results.
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NicolePCanada got a reaction from rravkin@aol.com in Eluate testing? Screens first or straight to a panel?
We do the screen and the panel right away if there is enough eluate to go around, however our policy also states that if the DAT results have not changed from previous time and no new antibodies have formed, an eluate does not need to be performed. We have a lot of cancer patients on weird meds that mess with the DAT so it would be a supreme waste of reagent to do it over and over to achieve the same "All cells reacting, no specificity" results.
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NicolePCanada got a reaction from Malcolm Needs in Eluate testing? Screens first or straight to a panel?
We do the screen and the panel right away if there is enough eluate to go around, however our policy also states that if the DAT results have not changed from previous time and no new antibodies have formed, an eluate does not need to be performed. We have a lot of cancer patients on weird meds that mess with the DAT so it would be a supreme waste of reagent to do it over and over to achieve the same "All cells reacting, no specificity" results.
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NicolePCanada reacted to Malcolm Needs in Eluate testing? Screens first or straight to a panel?
Equally good point. A type and screen, but this is on the grounds that, in all but the most acute of acute haemolytic transfusion reactions, the reaction can be treated, whereas a patient who has bled to death cannot be resurrected!