yolis76

Hello all - I wonder if anyone has experience with bringing MLS/MT staff to your labs using the H1b Visa sponsorship route. The paralegal at my organization is asking me to justify the needs for a bachelor's degree for each of the job components listed in our job description for the MT/MLS role. Did you need to do this as well and if so, we can talk to see how you were able to justify? Thanks!

Thanks for that feedback it's very useful! I am going to buy one to try them out and see how far we can extend the validation. So did you validate it both ways, open and close or just open? I can see AABB coming in and saying, well if the majority of the time it's closed, how can you verify it's not getting TOO cold? Ugh! AABB can be so frustrating!

Thank you for that feedback! I emailed out this same question to colleagues in the area and they pretty much said the same, and that their maintenence department seems to like them. I'm going to order 2 to replace a double wide jewett like yours. I hope it works out well! :-)

Is this the one you're using? Click here I want to purchase to try it out but I want to be sure it's the same one you're referring too. What are you using to keep cold inside, bags of ice? Cooler packs? And how many? Thank you!

Is anyone using Follet's BB fridge? Click here to view the website. Any input from people currently using would be appreciated!

It's still only 60% and that's if you go through an accredited program. If you do not then the stat drops to 35%.

Having worked with Solid phase long enough I would first suspect junk reactivity and test in the tube with LISS. If that is negative I'd call this a negative screen. If you get something there then it's possible that what someone above suggested - the titer in the mother is just too low to detect and you are picking something up in the infant.

NO idea.... but I am glad to hear that they are wrong!

Thanks! I was concerned. I am working with Dr. Harmening and she was told by someone on the west coast that 'forward' and 'reverse' typing were old terms... but I am currently an educator in both an SBB program and an MLS program and I use them all the time :-)

If a DCe/DcE patient receives Rh negative blood (usually dce/dce)then they may develop anti-f ? --> I would say yes because the recipient does not have the 'f' antigen (you need to remember that the ce antigens must be inherited from the same haplotype ie the same parent); the donor does express the 'f'antigen, therefore the recipient may form Anti-f. The Rh genotypes DCe/DCe and DCe/DcE can make anti-f whereas DCe/dce, DcE/dce and dce/dce can cause the anti-f to be made if transfused into the first two genotypes? --> yes, see above. What about auto anti-f. Is there a tendency of any paticular genotype to make it more often? It occurs often with anti-c? --> not sure but there's just about auto-anti-anytying... Marion Reed's book might give you a better idea about the frequency of this occurring.

Is it true that the terms "forward" and "reverse" typing are no longer used, acceptable terms for ABO typing?

I've seen Anti-E and Anti-C in WinRho and IVIG. But I don't think I've seen it from RhIg...

Well seeing how some people have confessed to embarrassing mistakes on their part, I will confess mine. In my defense, I was not even an MT student yet, but I had started to work in the Micro lab doing receiving samples and doing simple setups. I started working there over the summer before the MT course began so I was very very fresh.... A doctor and her resident walk in and hand me a sample and say: I'd like EB testing done on this please" And I look at her and say: Ebola virus? No she says, Epstein Barr Virus... how stupid did I feel?!

I've had this exact same thing happen to me. I was amazed!

Any results for this case?