I am going to try my hardest to not make this a book..... Has anyone had problems with false positives with Ortho screen cells?? We are having them here in our lab and unfortunately this is a very small hospital and we don't do panels so then we have to send out the patients blood and then the other hospital calls back woth negative....so ortho recommended we keep the cells in the fridge always (didn't help) This also happened at the hospital I worked at before which was clear across the country and ortho said there were peolpe that hand antibodies to the gel and recommended we do a dilution with the MTS solution after we had done panel A and B and come up with neg. Recently we started using the new lot number of screen cells as soon as we get them , because they just don't seem to last. Oh, and a co-worker of mine was recently at another hospital and talked to their BB person and ortho had them cover their screen cells with construction paper to protect them from the light, and cover the top of the incubator....they said by the way, this didin't help!!!:mad: So, now I am ready to tell ortho good bye.....and go back to tubes!!! ANY IDEAS!????
