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drsbright

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About drsbright

  • Birthday 08/16/1949

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  • Interests
    Classic Music, Opera, Baroque Organ music
  • Location
    Indianapolis Indiana
  • Occupation
    Transfusion Medicine

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  1. Does anyone out there know of any inexpensive serological centrifuges (for 12 x 75) tubes. We are an MLT program and need several for our multiple campuses in Central Indiana. Most of those on the market are at least $2500 each. SMB Indianapolis, Indiana
  2. Linda: Do you have me mixed up with someone regarding the "good book" !! drsbright Indianapolis, Indiana
  3. Paul: This was faxed earlier today to the number you gave me. I trust it can be of some benefit to your service. SMB Indianapolis, Indiana
  4. JOhn: Give me a fax number and I will send you the outcome of a major study on this very topic at Methodist/Claian and Indiana University Hospitals. SMB Indianapolis, Indiana
  5. I would like opinions from the group regarding action to take ( or not) when historical antibodies have titered out and are no longer demonstrable. Case in point: 94 year old female, anemia of chronic disease, has received over 200 units over many years. Historically she had an anti-E, and warm autoantibody. For months, neither is demonstrable and her antibody screens and crossmatches are completely negative. Should the blood banker continue to screen units and provide antigen negative blood and perform the full Coombs crossmatch based solely on history? SMB
  6. I have a question over our policy to address the TRM.30575 standard. CLEARLY, this requirement is not about misidentification. It is about incorrectly mistyping a sample. What are all of you doing about this?????.....what constitutes a first sample vs a second sample? ....Is historical data considered a "1st" time typing? SMB Indianapolis, Indiana
  7. As my son would say...........MY BAD !!!!! Profound apologies for the assumption of gender, SMB:cries:
  8. Listen to JP Croke..........He is making sense. I support everything he says. Save $$$ everywhere you possibly can without bending the rules SMB Indianapolis IN
  9. NOWHERE does it state that it is acceptable to respin the gel cards. How did this get started? That cannot possibly be acceptable practice and these results should be tossed out. drsbright, Indianapolis, Indiana
  10. We stopped re-testing for antigens because we are paying the blood center a premium to do it for us and they affirm their work on paper and tagging the units. As a safety net, we always perform a full Coombs crossmatch between the screened donors and our patients. It makes no sense to redo the work you are paying someone to do for you.
  11. Our hospital system is seeing all sorts of aberrant results in GEL recently: mixed field reactions in multiple microtubes, Positive screening cells, with negative IDs, results inconsistent with patient history, results not reproducible, on and on........... Ortho is defending their product MTS Gel, but the evidence is mounting against this system as being far too sensitive and unreliable. While my colleagues in this e-forum have suggested multiple backup plans and methods for dealing with the GEL results, to keep retesting over and over is not feasible and too costly in terms of TAT and efficiency in the deparment. We find ourselves having to retest far too many patients and, as supervisor, I am flooded with calls, inquiries, and "what to dos" If these large blood centers are jumping ship and going back to tube testing, there should be a message loud and clear to Ortho embedded in there. While this is being sorted out, give me a supply of 12 x 75s and a marking pen. Dr Stephen Bright St Elizabeth Regional Health Lafayette Indiana
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