Our hosiptal is thinking of switching from Galileo to Tango for multiple reasons, 1 being the amount of "false positive" reactions we get. Often we will get a 1+ or 2+ reaction on the screen and when we run the Ab_ID we either get random positive reactions that do not "match" an ab pattern or a completely negative panel, and when we run our alternate methodology the screen or panel is negative. (Note we are not talking about patients who have received rhogam recently.) I am wondering if Tango users are also having these types of issues since they are same methodology? From my understanding, tango uses intact red cells as apposed to a broken red cell membrane coated on the strip (galileo), many of these "unspecific" reactions do not show up on the tango, and I am wondering if this is true. Any thoughts
