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Mary**

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  1. Good ideas. Thanks to everyone. Does anyone also notify the attending physician?
  2. I would be interested in hearing about your process for notifying patients that they have atypical antibodies. We are planning on using a wallet card. If anyone has an example of a letter to patients explaining what to do with the card, I hope you would share it with me. :fingerscr
  3. If you receive antigen negative (i.e. K-,S-,etc.) blood from your Reference Lab do you repeat the antigen typings, Especially when they are marked "historically negative"?:fingerscr
  4. :bonk:What's with the boxes issue????
  5. Ours is performedby a "Quality Management"team. Mostly nurses.
  6. :cries:Has anyone read the summary of Ask the FDA 2010 on the AABB web site? One question that was asked was: does gel crossmatching satisfy the reqirement to test for ABO incompatibility? The FDA said no, because gel does not detect all IgM antibodies. I retested this, and found that gel detected all ABO incompatibilities. Does anyone also do immediate spin or electronic crossmatches when doing gel crossmatches for patients that have IgG antibodies???
  7. What kind of filters do you use for transfusing cryoprecipitate? Thanks.
  8. We justed added a reason called "not expired" to use when dispensing.
  9. I have Accublock by Lab Net International. I think we purchased them from Market Lab. No problems with them.
  10. :nana:You can buy AntiC3d/C3b in a single vial. If you do any tube testing, you would use up a 10 pack of Anti-IgG. When we do a direct coombs on an adult, we use each reagent seperately and don't waste either.
  11. :angered:The MD just dumped the problem on someone else and delayed the transfusion again.
  12. We have solved the OR issue by giving tem some extra armbands and having them place the old insert with the patient info on it into the new armband before they leave the room. It is working pretty well. Good luck.
  13. Send me your email address and I send yoou ours.
  14. I understand your "rain cloud"! Thanks.:raincloud
  15. We only do an ABO&Rh and immediate spin crossmatches on patients that have donated autologous units. We keep these specimens in a seperate rack to indicate that an antibody screen has not been performed on the specimen. In the case that they would want additional units, we would perform an antibody screen. Additional units are rarely requested. I would be interested in what others are doing.
  16. I agree with yoou JP. Then there are always situations in smaller institutions when there is only one MT or only one phlebotomist on third shift.
  17. CardninalHealth sells red spirit filled NIST thermometers.
  18. :angered:Has anyone used a calibration lab other than Essco? I sent ours to them and they said the fluid seperated and they are returning it. I don't want to use them again. I will have to buy a new one. Since they havd had it for 2 weeks, I wonder if it arrived seperated or.............
  19. Doe anyone issue O Negatives to the emergency room without patient identification? If so, do you handle the identification, emergency release form, etc. after the fact?
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