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Malcolm Needs reacted to mommymini1 in How not to miss a weak reaction
Thank you so much for your suggestion …I really appreciate it.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Kelly Guenthner in How not to miss a weak reaction
It sounds to me like you are doing everything that you should do, without either over-shaking the tube, or over-reading the contents.
I am extremely glad that you are not using a microscope, as, if you did, you would almost certainly see the odd couple of red cells "kissing each other", even if they have been incubated in isotonic saline.
The other thing is (and I speak with some 43 years of working in blood group serology) if the reactions in the tube are THAT weak, the chances of any atypical alloantibody that you might miss being clinically significant are absolutely minute.
If you are still worried, however, get a more experienced worker to read your tests as well, until you feel confident. That is how I learned when I started.
I wish you the best of luck in your future career.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Jsbneg in How not to miss a weak reaction
It sounds to me like you are doing everything that you should do, without either over-shaking the tube, or over-reading the contents.
I am extremely glad that you are not using a microscope, as, if you did, you would almost certainly see the odd couple of red cells "kissing each other", even if they have been incubated in isotonic saline.
The other thing is (and I speak with some 43 years of working in blood group serology) if the reactions in the tube are THAT weak, the chances of any atypical alloantibody that you might miss being clinically significant are absolutely minute.
If you are still worried, however, get a more experienced worker to read your tests as well, until you feel confident. That is how I learned when I started.
I wish you the best of luck in your future career.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to mommymini1 in How not to miss a weak reaction
Hi, I am a new bloodbanker and forgive me in advance for asking this question. My question is….I am afraid when reading tube agglutination I will miss a weak reaction and call it negative. I think it’s my technique. When I am reading a tube reaction after centrifuging ….I hold the tube so that the button is facing upwards and then I gently swirl while watching the button to see how it falls off. I look for any granules. Is this right ? Are there any tips on how not to over shake a tube and miss the weak agglutination . Thanks for reading my question.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to BankerGirl in BloodBankTalk: Marrow transplantation safety and efficacy
I just answered this question.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from John C. Staley in new edition of The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook. 3rd edition, 2012?
Hi Mabel,
I contacted Jill and, although there was some talk about it, nothing has come of it yet. The authors are aware, however, that the public would like a new version.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Mabel Adams in new edition of The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook. 3rd edition, 2012?
Hi Mabel,
I contacted Jill and, although there was some talk about it, nothing has come of it yet. The authors are aware, however, that the public would like a new version.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from OxyApos in new edition of The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook. 3rd edition, 2012?
I don't know, although I have heard rumours.
I'll contact Martin Olsson via Jill Storry, but you'll have to give me a couple of days.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to snance in Dr Patricia Tippett.
In my interactions, Patricia was a grand lady. So very kind to new talent and so gracious with her peers. I have some of the letters that she and Dr. Polly Crawford exchanged over the years regarding interesting cases and personal life happenings. They had a unique friendship! And, I have a talk at AABB in Nashville where I used a quote from her 1962 publication (!!) regarding anti-D in D+ patients with a negative DAT as missing a part of the D antigen, what we now identify with molecular methods as partial RHD. How absolutely thrilling that must have been to see new techniques prove and go further with historic theories. An excellent scientist, she is missed. Sandy Nance
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Judes in Transfusing O positive RBCLR to O negative
Yes, nationally in the UK, via BSH Guidelines.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Judes in Dr Patricia Tippett.
It is with immense regret that I have to say that I learned yesterday that Dr Patricia Tippett died at the age of 93 on 1st August 2023.
I first met Pat in the early 1970's, when I was a callow youth who had just left school and was working at the IBGRL when it was in Gatliff Road in London (when Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director) and Pat was working in the opposite building in the MRC Blood Group Unit, then under Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger.
Pat is probably most famous for her work on the Rh Blood Group System, including categorising the then know Partial D types and for realising that the RH genes were twofold; namely RHD and RHCE.
She was. of course, one of the greats, but was as friendly to this callow youth as I started out in the profession, as she was to everyone who were already greats within the field.
May she rest in peace.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from holly4874 in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Well, the thing is John, when I first left school, I started to work as a VERY, VERY junior member of staff at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory when it was in London. At that time Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director, but others working there were Dr Carolyn Giles, Dr Elizabeth (Jan) Ikin, and a VERY young Joyce Poole. Across the carpark was the MRC Blood Group Unit, run by Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger, where Dr Patricia Tippett worked, along with Geoff Daniels, for a while Christine Lomas (before she went to the USA and became Christine Lomas-Francis) and, for a short time, Dr Marcela Contreras (before she became a Dame and a Professor). Just up the corridor was another set of laboratories run by Profs Walter Morgan and Winifred Watkins (and the janitor was one Sid Smith - after whom the SID Blood Group System was named).
As you can imagine, with all those "NAMES" working in such a small area of London, it was like a magnet for all of the other world's greats to come and visit (I even met Dr Arthur Mourant and Dr Philip Levine on visits).
With all these people, ALL of whom were amazingly helpful to even me, as someone who had just left school, what else could I do but fall deeply in love with the profession, and count my blessings from day one until I retired 43 years later. I have been one lucky man.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Ally in Transfusing O positive RBCLR to O negative
Was the physician happy for his/her patient to expire if there was literally no group O, D Negative blood available, or, indeed, to condemn some other patient to death if, for example, they were exsanguinating and also had an anti-D???????
RIDICULOUS!!!!!!! NOT you, the physician.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from albaugh in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Well, the thing is John, when I first left school, I started to work as a VERY, VERY junior member of staff at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory when it was in London. At that time Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director, but others working there were Dr Carolyn Giles, Dr Elizabeth (Jan) Ikin, and a VERY young Joyce Poole. Across the carpark was the MRC Blood Group Unit, run by Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger, where Dr Patricia Tippett worked, along with Geoff Daniels, for a while Christine Lomas (before she went to the USA and became Christine Lomas-Francis) and, for a short time, Dr Marcela Contreras (before she became a Dame and a Professor). Just up the corridor was another set of laboratories run by Profs Walter Morgan and Winifred Watkins (and the janitor was one Sid Smith - after whom the SID Blood Group System was named).
As you can imagine, with all those "NAMES" working in such a small area of London, it was like a magnet for all of the other world's greats to come and visit (I even met Dr Arthur Mourant and Dr Philip Levine on visits).
With all these people, ALL of whom were amazingly helpful to even me, as someone who had just left school, what else could I do but fall deeply in love with the profession, and count my blessings from day one until I retired 43 years later. I have been one lucky man.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from noelrbrown in Dr Patricia Tippett.
It is with immense regret that I have to say that I learned yesterday that Dr Patricia Tippett died at the age of 93 on 1st August 2023.
I first met Pat in the early 1970's, when I was a callow youth who had just left school and was working at the IBGRL when it was in Gatliff Road in London (when Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director) and Pat was working in the opposite building in the MRC Blood Group Unit, then under Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger.
Pat is probably most famous for her work on the Rh Blood Group System, including categorising the then know Partial D types and for realising that the RH genes were twofold; namely RHD and RHCE.
She was. of course, one of the greats, but was as friendly to this callow youth as I started out in the profession, as she was to everyone who were already greats within the field.
May she rest in peace.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from John C. Staley in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Well, the thing is John, when I first left school, I started to work as a VERY, VERY junior member of staff at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory when it was in London. At that time Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director, but others working there were Dr Carolyn Giles, Dr Elizabeth (Jan) Ikin, and a VERY young Joyce Poole. Across the carpark was the MRC Blood Group Unit, run by Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger, where Dr Patricia Tippett worked, along with Geoff Daniels, for a while Christine Lomas (before she went to the USA and became Christine Lomas-Francis) and, for a short time, Dr Marcela Contreras (before she became a Dame and a Professor). Just up the corridor was another set of laboratories run by Profs Walter Morgan and Winifred Watkins (and the janitor was one Sid Smith - after whom the SID Blood Group System was named).
As you can imagine, with all those "NAMES" working in such a small area of London, it was like a magnet for all of the other world's greats to come and visit (I even met Dr Arthur Mourant and Dr Philip Levine on visits).
With all these people, ALL of whom were amazingly helpful to even me, as someone who had just left school, what else could I do but fall deeply in love with the profession, and count my blessings from day one until I retired 43 years later. I have been one lucky man.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Arno in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Well, the thing is John, when I first left school, I started to work as a VERY, VERY junior member of staff at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory when it was in London. At that time Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director, but others working there were Dr Carolyn Giles, Dr Elizabeth (Jan) Ikin, and a VERY young Joyce Poole. Across the carpark was the MRC Blood Group Unit, run by Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger, where Dr Patricia Tippett worked, along with Geoff Daniels, for a while Christine Lomas (before she went to the USA and became Christine Lomas-Francis) and, for a short time, Dr Marcela Contreras (before she became a Dame and a Professor). Just up the corridor was another set of laboratories run by Profs Walter Morgan and Winifred Watkins (and the janitor was one Sid Smith - after whom the SID Blood Group System was named).
As you can imagine, with all those "NAMES" working in such a small area of London, it was like a magnet for all of the other world's greats to come and visit (I even met Dr Arthur Mourant and Dr Philip Levine on visits).
With all these people, ALL of whom were amazingly helpful to even me, as someone who had just left school, what else could I do but fall deeply in love with the profession, and count my blessings from day one until I retired 43 years later. I have been one lucky man.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to Cliff in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Sorry for your loss and the loss to the community.
Sounds like she had a long and fruitful life.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to Sherif Abd El Monem in Study With Me : Introduction to Blood Transfusion 1
Study With Me : Introduction to Blood Transfusion 2
https://immunohematologymadeeasy.com/study-with-me-introduction-to-blood-transfusion-2/
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Malcolm Needs reacted to John C. Staley in Dr Patricia Tippett.
Malcolm, you appear to have know all the greats. I had the honor of meeting a few of them over the years and it's sad to witness the passing of an era of such amazing discoveries.
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Malcolm Needs reacted to Marilyn Plett in Dr Patricia Tippett.
I was introduced to Dr. Tippett at an AABB annual meeting. I was a newbie SBB and manager. I had recently sent her my first example of an Rh positive mother who had anti-D. Dr. Tippett was very lovely and a giant in our field. I was thrilled to meet her.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from donellda in Dr Patricia Tippett.
It is with immense regret that I have to say that I learned yesterday that Dr Patricia Tippett died at the age of 93 on 1st August 2023.
I first met Pat in the early 1970's, when I was a callow youth who had just left school and was working at the IBGRL when it was in Gatliff Road in London (when Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director) and Pat was working in the opposite building in the MRC Blood Group Unit, then under Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger.
Pat is probably most famous for her work on the Rh Blood Group System, including categorising the then know Partial D types and for realising that the RH genes were twofold; namely RHD and RHCE.
She was. of course, one of the greats, but was as friendly to this callow youth as I started out in the profession, as she was to everyone who were already greats within the field.
May she rest in peace.
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Malcolm Needs got a reaction from Cliff in Dr Patricia Tippett.
It is with immense regret that I have to say that I learned yesterday that Dr Patricia Tippett died at the age of 93 on 1st August 2023.
I first met Pat in the early 1970's, when I was a callow youth who had just left school and was working at the IBGRL when it was in Gatliff Road in London (when Dr Kenneth Goldsmith was the Director) and Pat was working in the opposite building in the MRC Blood Group Unit, then under Drs Rob Race and Ruth Sanger.
Pat is probably most famous for her work on the Rh Blood Group System, including categorising the then know Partial D types and for realising that the RH genes were twofold; namely RHD and RHCE.
She was. of course, one of the greats, but was as friendly to this callow youth as I started out in the profession, as she was to everyone who were already greats within the field.
May she rest in peace.