Steve72

For gel antibody screen, you get 1+ in all three cells and the panel is inconclusive with only 2 negative cells (autocontrol is weakly positive). Some of our techs feel that we should repeat the screen using prewarm technique and if it comes out negative we can report cold auto without any further work-up. What steps should be followed before coming to this conclusion (i.e. cold auto)? Thanks.

Just curious how you would proceed in the following situation. We had a patient whose antibody screen was negative and subsequently received 8 units PRBC. Now (10 days later), his antibody screen was positive and the id was a clear match of anti-K. The autocontrol was positive (1+) and, according to the technologist, the DAT was negative. [The antibody screen and id were performed on MTS gel cards, and the DAT was performed using tube method]. My question is what would you do with the positive autocontrol? (The tech crossmatched units negative for K, but did no further investigation). Thanks. ~Steve