If you will rim your cord bloods to remove all of the clots (the nursing staff put them in there on purpose, you know ), then you do not have to wash them. We rim them until we find no more clots, then spin them so we have packed cells , place on the ProVue for an ABO and control (No back type obviously) and DAT IGG. With the new softward Ortho has just put in, there is a clot detection device in the software that will not run (and thus clog up) your ProVue if you have missed a clot. It works great on our cord bloods.