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John W.

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  1. I work as part of a 10 hospital health system. Currently, antibody identifications are sent to the main campus to perform usually as a costly STAT transport. We are looking at implementing antibody identification at the satellite hospitals but the cost of the additional anti-sera is pushing this to be more expensive than the STAT transport. All satellite sites send RBC unit segments to our main campus, who performs all the non-ABORH antigen testing for RBC units for the other 9 hospitals. Have you heard of having site A perform the antibody identification but then have the patient antigen test sent to site B? I've been going through AABB Tech Manual/Standards and AABB/CAP Checklists and cannot find anything that explicitly states patient antigen typing must be performed, but should be used to support the antibody identification. Scenario: Patient ABID performed at site A (satellite). Site B (main) performs antigen typing for RBC units at site A. Site B notifies site A which unit to crossmatch. Site A crossmatches RBC unit, compatible. Patient antigen typing sent to Site B on routine courier to be performed within 24 hours. Also, to reduce competency/proficiency testing needs, we are looking at having the satellite sites loading the ABID panel on their Echo analyzer but having the main campus still perform actual antibody identification/interpretation. Satellite site would print off the Echo result and fax/email the result and antigram to main campus. Has anyone else attempted this? If yes, what were your biggest hurdles? We are looking into ImmuLINK to allow the main campus to have access to the satellite Echos, but this probably will not make it through financial approvals .
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    Ortho Optix

    Does anyone have experience using an Ortho Optix reader? I have been trying to find information on how long it takes to perform a read and then transmit the results to LIS. I am trying to determine if this would be useful for some smaller hospitals where there are only 1-2 lab techs working and covering the whole lab. Thank you, John
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