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DBRITT

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  5. We start the beginning of the year with a schedule, each sample is assigned to a different tech. This is perfectly fine for CAP as long as two techs don't work up the same sample. After results are submitted, you can then assign these samples to someone else for in house competencies.
  6. Unfortunately, I have had the other experience. Sat down behind another tech, to complete crossmatches, pulled cards out of centrifuge and they were completely compatible. When I looked at the cards for the pt type, the patient was B pos. Tech had written A pos and crossmatched A pos units. I can only pray that this would have been caught, with all of our other checks in place before the pt got the blood. But this was enough to convince me.
  7. HAD A PATIENT THAT GAVE A 2+ REACTION IN ALL SCREEN CELLS AND WITH ALL UNITS CROSSMATCHED. DAT NEG, NO ALLOANTIBODIES. SENT TO ARC FOR WORKUP. PT ONLY REACTED LIKE THIS IN THE GEL SYSTEM. EVERY OTHER METHOD WAS NEGATIVE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE PT WAS ACTUALLY REACTING TO SOMETHING IN THE GEL SYSTEM. IN FACT PATIENT WAS REACTING TO MTS DILUENT. HAS ANYONE ELSE EXPERIENCED THIS PROBLEM?
  8. We only drop one charge per unit, but that charge is different depending on how many Antigens were screened for. If 1 then it's the Antigen 1charge, if 4 then it's the Antigen 4 charge on each unit
  9. We are a small hospital also and have the same issue of not needing 10L. I haven't found anywhere that has smaller bottles. For space reasons I really don't like switching to 10L cubes, but they are cheaper than the 1 gal bottles that we have now. So I guess that's the bright side of the problem.
  10. We use ABD/Reverse gel cards to type in units that we recieve from ARC. Last week we started having a problem. On the wells that are negative, we see a group of cells that are negative and then about a 2+ reaction above them. We see it mostly in the B well and the control well. I've tried everything I can think of. Tried different centrifuge, different box of cards (same shipment), a new lot of cards seemed to be a little better until our last shipment. New MTS2 diluent, new bottle MTS2 diluent without using dispenser. I pulled units off the shelf that we had previously typed and 2 of the 3 had problems. Nothing we were using was new all had been open for 7-14 days with no problem. 3 different techs have seen this problem, so it's not one person. Qc works fine and patients work fine we only have a problem with units. We even tried spinning the segs down before we use them. Is anyone else seeing a problem? Does anyone have any suggestions? All will be greatly appreciated!
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