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About Malcolm Needs

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  • Birthday 12/14/1954

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    Rugby Union, Cricket, cooking, wine, port, reading, crosswords, lecturing, more wine and more port!
  • Biography
    Pretty boring really, but not that pretty!
  • Location
    Milverton, Somerset, England
  • Occupation
    I have taken a brand new role in the NHSBT and am now involved very much more on the education and training side of red cell immunohaematology. My title is still Reference Service Manager, but with Training after it (Reference Service Manager - Training). I am very excited about this change, as I have a passion for training and education.
    Reference Service Manager with the NHSBT.
    Chartered Scientist.
    Fellow of the British Blood Transfusion Society, having twice served on their National Council.
    Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science. Member of their Special Advisory Panel for Transfusion Science and Chief Examiner for Transfusion Science for the Institute.
    Author of the chapter "Human erythrocyte antigens or blood groups" in Fundamentals of Biomedical Science, Transfusion and Transplantation Science, edited by Robin Knight, for the IBMS. 1st edition, Oxford University Press 2013 (ISBN 978-0-19-953328-2, pages 19-44.
    Just been appointed to the BCSH Blood Transfusion Task Force (writing Guidelines).
    Member of ISBT and AABB
    I am now retired from the Blood Service, but still do the other things!
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    Malcolm Needs CSci FIBMS FBBTS

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    VERY wise words.
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    I still have a very small cache of George Bird's seeds, which I will never relinquish!
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    Welcome Shannon1224.
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    Welcome JennyL.
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  26. Malcolm Needs
    When I got to bed last night, I suddenly realised that I may have missed out a fairly obvious cause, as I had not taken into account the fact that the patients were all pregnant. I just wonder if these patients have all made anti-Lea and anti-Leb, as it is not unusual for the Lewis antigens to "disappear" in pregnancy, and quite often they transiently make Lewis antibodies. If none of the cells you are using are themselves Le(a-b-), then this antibody mixture (actually, it isn't a mixture, but anti-Lea+b) can look like an antibody directed against a high prevalence antigen. If you c
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  28. Malcolm Needs
    Well, this is why I suggested the CR1 rBGP, as this will inhibit the antibodies directed against antigens within the Knops Blood Group System and, my other suggestion was the Chido/Rodgers Blood Group System; just as examples. I notice that you said that most of these patients are pregnant. Please do not, under any circumstances, think along the lines of HLA antibodies (I am certain that you wouldn't), as these would not appear as antibodies to high prevalence antigens. As I say, I'm sure you wouldn't, but others might.
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  30. Malcolm Needs
    Short of getting HFA negative cells, you may be able to get recombinant blood group proteins, such as CR1 (possibly from the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory in the UK, or from Professor Axel Seltsam's company, which, I believe, is called imusyn GmbH & Co. KG.
  31.    srichar3 reacted to a post in a topic: High Frequency Antigens
  32. Malcolm Needs
    It is probable that most are auto-antibodies, as David suggests, but it could also be things like antibodies within either the Chido/Rodgers, or the Knops Blood Group Systems (if the auto is negative).
  33. Malcolm Needs
    We used to perform KBs in blood transfusion, but we finally got rid of them to haematology. The reason for this was because it was so unusual for us to come across a true positive (apart from the positive control, of course) that we felt that we were no longer able to guarantee competency, whereas, in those days, haematology were used to performing manual reticulocytes, and so could almost guarantee competency. Nowadays, of course, retic counts are performed by automation, so their competency can no longer be guaranteed either (but we never accepted the KB's back!!!!!). Since 2009 (
  34. Malcolm Needs
    Welcome RuralBloodBank.
  35. Malcolm Needs
    A new tee shirt I gave myself for my birthday. I should have had a shave and lost about 70lbs first, but hey!
  36. Malcolm Needs
    But don't forget that those of us who are DCe/DCe are ALSO f Negative!
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