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From experience, I'm sure it's a lipemic unit but also from experience, I don't take risk with it either so it was kinda hard decision for me. The patient underwent surgery and after 3 hours of the transfusion of that unit, he got a cbc and everything was pretty normal. the 14 hour after cbc though, he got an increased wbc from 10 to 19k which can mean many things with that time gap.

I thawed out 3 FFPs and 1 unit was cloudy. Where I used to work before, whenever we have cloudy FFPs we throw it right away but here (US) I wasn't sure how it works, so I called up the BB supervisor early the the morning and told here about the thing just to be on the safe side(before i trash the unit). She told me to visually check for discoloration or any chunks floating. So, I did and it was negative for any floccular materials and she said it should be good because ARC checked that before they froze it. So I released the unit for transfusion... Anyone care to comment? Im so

We got similar problems but at least yours is a tech and ours is just self proclaimed. Trust me...our lab is more screwed up than yours. Did the same thing even went beyond HR but did something happened? nooooo...

do you still wana do mouth pippetting??? but seriously, it doesn't hurt to know tube methods.

hmmmm.... 0% fetal cells ==> no fetal cells to begin with ==> mom is a high titered O and baby is ABO incompatible(test was done on a redrawn sample) The positive in the patient was repeated and was very positive(no technical error) ==> test was performed in primary tube (both initial and confirmatory) 3rd option... weak D

it is desirable to complete red cell transfusion within 2 hours and a platelet or plasma within 30-60 minutes. Any transfusion should be completed within 4 hours of initiation.

it's my nationality coz im from the Philippines:cool:

False positive test do happen, its not isolated only to HCV testing but also on others like HIV, HBS etc...In any case, it's unwise to retest a sample with the same kind of methodology(EIA VS EIA just of different manufacutrer brand in which the degree of SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY VARIES), that is why they created confirmatory test. For HCV go with RIBA, positive then yes you have the virus(but the test doesn't indicate if it is a past or present infection) if its negative, then the 1st initial testing with EIA(anti-HCV) is a false positive result. Some individuals give a physiologic false positive test, the explanation is not sure but it was thought that they have something on their blood that reacts with the reagents that causes the false positives in the absence of a viable virus. It's very ignorant to directly assume that technical error was involved. I have a friend who is false POSITIVE HIV with qualitative testing(no signs and symptoms of DSS) , negative in confirmatory TEST...we use use blood just for fun @ school. So i can attest to the FALSE thingies... SOURCES On SENSITIVITY VS SPECIFICITY = Henry's Clinical DX dont matter what edition(GOOD READ) *i assume the DR used EIA also(i might be wrong) *im still at work when im typing this so there will be grammatical errors. oh snap! blood culture Gram stain: Gram Positive Bacilli in Chains(filamentous) ! hmmmm....anthrax??? GTG BRB to edit this just my 2 cents

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Ineffective hematopoiesis is sometimes misdiagnosed as hemolysis which is the case of MDS. Due to abnormal production, RBC breakdown occurs intravascularly which in turn...walahhh...urine in blood. or my other theory is PNH which is very common in people with bone marrow disorders. i blame the disease for this one for the reference...i think that was on HENRY or an article that i just happen to mistook for a PORN magz then got hook up reading it anyways !... just my 2 cents

i agree on david on where is where.

Does anyone here know of new BB bags for FFP/cryo that doesn't break easily? i got frew instances where just by taking the bag out from the freezer a piece chips off...imagine what happened when it slip off my hand...total epic fail !

kababayan!

I'm sorry but i can't remember where i read that one but i found a link here on the net which may shed some light on this topic https://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/160221123.html hope it helps

Hi guys! What's the commonly encountered problems you got in your institution in terms of equipment issues , software or etc... and how do you think you could solve it? -in our hospital was upgrading the patient records from paper to computer...still no improvement as everyone is too lazy to transfer the infos !