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The switch to Pink tops was underway when before I stepped foot in this place. It's a known problem with this vendor's Anti-B and it's being addressed. I'm pretty sure I'm going to to be forced to have a Red and a Pink drawn for every BB specimen, because they don't want to have to do a saline replacement every time they see rouleaux. I'll be monitoring this, but my hands are sort of tied..

I talked to a colleague of mine, and she thinks that we weren't spinning our tubes fast enough or long enough. So... I "borrowed" a centrifuge from Chemistry for a while and see if that helps things. Also, we had some problems with our Anti-B and so did my colleague. She said they are just washing their patients' cells if they get a unexpected reaction with the Anti-B and repeating the front type. Usually fixes the problem. Thanks again for you help! And I'm only 25, so pretty much all of the techs are older than me... Haha

Within the last year we recently switched from a Red top to a Pink top for our blood bank specimens, with some resistance from the older techs. Recently some of our techs have been having problems with the Pink tops. They say that there is some "grainy-ness" in the front types. An older tech actually went up and drew a Red top on a patient to do his testing. They are saying they would rather go back to the clot tubes, which I REALLY do not want to. Has anyone else had any problems with using the Pink top EDTA for BB testing?

Hello All! We are currently in the process of doing correlations from Tube to Gel. Our issue is that managment want us to do completely away with tube and take everything to gel... This worries us. We have expressed our concerns, especially about having tube as a back up and for IS XM. Just curious if any other lab has gone completely tubeless or not, *haha* and what your thoughts on the subject. THANKS =o]