Malcolm Needs

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I may well be being very thick here, but what exactly is a reference range for an antibody screen? Is it how many positive results you would expect on samples from individuals who are new to your own institution? If it is, and I am not being completely stupid (I probably am), how can ANYONE possibly come up with such a range? Surely, such a range depends upon al sorts of different factors, such as sex (women who have been pregnant are almost bound to have more atypical alloantibodies than either women who have not been pregnant, or males (who have never been pregnant), individuals who have been multiply transfused because of such things as Sickle Cell Disease, or thalassaemia, but even then, the atypical alloantibodies detected in such individuals depends upon factors like how many transfusions they have received, whether the donors are of the same/similar ethnicity as the individual, and, indeed, whether or not the individual is a respondent or not (or, as the great Dr/Prof Ed Snyder once lectured the British Blood Transfusion Society (BBTS) concerning patient's who have a "virtual transfusion" (they are shown a photograph of a red cell and, as a result, form an atypical alloantibody). There are just so many variables, I cannot see how there could possibly be a "reference range", unless, as I suspect, I have got completely the wrong end of the stick/

We did the same, back in the Dark Ages when I was still working.

It is with huge regret that I can reveal that Marilyn Kay Grandstaff Moulds has just informed me that Peter Issitt died on Wednesday evening. One of the truly great blood groupers.

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I worked in blood group serology/red cell immunohaematology for 43 years, until I retired in October 2016, but still love the subject - so we should get on well!!!!!!!!

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I know the feeling. I once cross-matched for a patient who was a Jehovah's Witness who said that they had never been transfused. The only trouble was that their serum/plasma contained one of the strongest anti-Fya's that I ever saw throughout my career!!!!!!!!

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Thanks Cliff. From a VERY brief test, it looks like it.

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I've had similar problems.

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My own experience with an antibody card that would have been useful, from 2007. Slides 5 and 25 are of particular interest from my own point of view! It should be noted that I no longer work for the NBS/NHSBT, and am no longer entitled to put CSci FIBMS after my name, although I am entitled to put FBBTS after it. Funny old world! COADOA.ppt

Not as far as I know. Ask Arno. There may still be a few course books about.

I had the ENORMOUS honour of lecturing on a course with Sue in Cressier in Switzerland in 2015, and I can assure everyone that she is a consummate lecturer, who has the ability to get across the most difficult subjects, and make them fully understandable to even the most junior of staff.