CandyCapMT

I am the supervisor for a 150 bed hospital's blood bank. We are preparing for our CAP inspection and I came across a regulation (TRM.31250) that says we need to be running a positive and negative control for each day of use for our expired antibody panel cells. What is everyone using for a control? Will the serum or plasma from a patient with an anti-D work, or is there an antibody suspension that will work better. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. We save these because our reference lab is only open 8-4:30 M-F so we need to be able to identify our patient's antibodies unless it is something very rare. Thanks. Candy

I too have used both the bio-hit and the tipmaster and I prefer the bio-hit as well. I think it is more a matter of cost at the places that I have worked at. Where I am now, we have 3 bio-hits because they do tend to get abused here and I have to have regular maintenance and battery replacement performed bi-annually, but they are very reliable and very good for small samples.

I didn't realize there was something about the marked cells on the back of the sheet. Thanks for that info, that helps me tremendously.

Does anyone have a procedure for doing a modified gel panel for Passive D? I am trying to write a procedure for this, but am not really sure how to approach it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I looked in the documents section but didn't see one that had been uploaded. Thanks.

I would really appreciate that information from CAP Dawn. We are CAP accredited and not AABB so it would help me a lot. Thanks.

I am a new Blood Bank Supervisor and I have a couple of questions about panels. Can someone tell me where to find the regulation that says it is okay to use expired panels for select cell testing. I can't find this regulation anywhere and my director isn't comfortable using expired reagents. Also, does anyone know of a regulation that says it is okay to not QC Panel B. We only QC Panel A before we put it into use. Thanks in advance for any help.