I was wondering how most of you QC your blood bank saline? We are a small hospital and typically only use gel testing. The only time we use our saline cube is when we wash cord blood, when we re-type our blood upon arrival, and then occassional antibody workups/problem crossmatches. Our daily QC for tube testing currently only includes testing of Anti-A,-B,-D,-Rh control, and AHG. The only procedure I can find for testing the saline is to test it against screening cells, incubate, wash, so on and so forth. It just seems to be a pain to have to carry that out when the other tube testing is done in a minute or two. Does anyone have a better procedure to QC the saline? Thanks.