Kathyang

The Standard from AABB was 2.1.3. The CAP was Gen 555.00. The CAP deficiency I am going to argue, since that is testing personnel only.

Actually with our QC that we do in tube, the negative control for Anti A and Anti B is O Pos cells. That is CorQC from Ortho.

When we order antigen testing, we don't re-test the unit. We do order historically tested units from our blood supplier and then we test it.

My thinking would be if the electronic monitoring system would go down for some reason, do I know that my alarms will still work at the correct temperature?

We are switching to Epic in a few months. We are not dropping the band because there are ways around not using the system ID to draw the blood. Also unless all your nurses have printers that they can take into the room to collect the patients. they will be printing the labels at the nurse's station and then taking them into the room which to me is an accident waiting to happen. Also if Epic is down, again there is no best practice for making sure the correct patient is being collected. I would seriously wait until you have used Epic for a period of time before removing the bands. What Blood Bank system will you be using?

we use 4 hours after it is issued in the computer.

we use 4 hours after it is issued in the computer.

We have the same thing. We put ours into the Bactec bottles and place the Bactec bottles into incubate in our Bactec.

We also run our cord bloods on ProVue. Yes we do weak D testing in tube since ProVue doesn't test for all weak variants of D.

We do not test again after delivery. We only do the Fetal screen testing unless the mother delivered without testing being completed.

I haven't done a full crossmatch on everyone since 1990. Most places now do electrons crossmatches on negative screens as long as there is no history of antibodies.

I haven't done a full crossmatch on everyone since 1990. Most places now do electrons crossmatches on negative screens as long as there is no history of antibodies.

Why would you? It is not a true antibody. We don't.

I included this as part of my ABID policy. If the patient has received Rhogam, we only do the cells with @ in the Ortho panel. We use to call it a Rhogam-D in our old computer system but now it is called a Passive D since that was what was built in the system. We don't require a full crossmatch since it isn't a true antibody.
   I hope this answered all your questions.

I included this as part of my ABID policy. If the patient has received Rhogam, we only do the cells with @ in the Ortho panel. We use to call it a Rhogam-D in our old computer system but now it is called a Passive D since that was what was built in the system. We don't require a full crossmatch since it isn't a true antibody.
   I hope this answered all your questions.

I have used Softbank for several years and it is one of the best out right now.

I have used Softbank for several years and it is one of the best out right now.