[Editing Personal Information]

I am not receiving any error - those fields (ie Bio, Location Interests) are just not available for editing.  (When I go to My Settings and click on "edit", various editable fields are displayed - Bio and Location are just not among them. Oddly, now I am able to edit Interests...still not Bio and Location, though.)

[Editing Personal Information]

Thanks Cliff, but My Settings does not allow me to edit Bio, Location, or Interests. 

[Editing Personal Information]

How can I edit my Biography, Location, and Interests?

[ABO & RH type for Platelet recipients]

Our policy for platelets (and plasma and cryo) is one sample per admission, typed by one tech and confirmed by another. Blood bank samples from outpatients who have not been transfused or pregnant in the preceding three months may be used for 30 days.

[Why to add first serum when grouping and crossmatching]

Hi folks. I hate to say this but I nearly always drop my cells into the tube before adding serum or plasma! My reasoning is that if my cell drop is too heavy (too large a volume or too heavy a suspension) I can only correct this before I've added serum/plasma. The patient sample is generally more precious and hard-to-come-by than the commercial reagent. Also, this is the way I was taught to do it 30 years ago! As for false negatives - I really think you'd realize you haven't added serum, if not before than at least after spinning your tubes. My question is - how do you know you've added plasma to gel cards, which require that you add cells first, and don't even have the benefit of check cells?