Pat Hodges

I have a copy of the book and the answers are in it. I don't have it in front of me right now, but I think they are part of the cases in my copy.

We use 2800 rpm for 20 seconds

I just answered this question. My Score FAIL

We do an AHG crossmatch (either by Echo or gel) only when the current antibody screen is positive. If the patient has a negative antibody screen, even if there's history of anti-Bg, we do an electronic crossmatch.

We have 5 Echoes interfaced to BBCS. There were multiple problems developing the interface because we were the first facillity to use the interface. But, for the past few months, the interface has worked well - no results transferred incorrectly. Group, Screen, and DAT are interfaced.