Autumn

JOANBALONE, Working in a small hospital, we don't get many requests for neonate transfusion here. Most of times, we transfuse a baby with uncrossed, O neg, IRR, CMV neg PC's and the baby usually get transferred to other hospital. However, in this case, the baby has been staying with us for a while. Our SOP states that XM for neonate should be performed with the mom's plasma when the mom has an antibody. As a general bench tech, I am not empowered to modify our procedures. Autumn

I have more story on the baby. Yesterday, we were not able to collect a new sample from mom. She was discharged and not available. We transfused the baby with E neg unit that was xm'd with 5 days old mom's plasma (has been kept in a fridge). Today, we called mom back and collected a new sample. Her new sample shows an additional antibody; Anti-E and Jka now. She has not been transfused. At the time of her delivery, BK test was neg. I am not sure exactly at what stage the L&D draw the BK sample, but assume it was a pre delivery sample. No post partum BK test was done. So, we are going to transfuse the baby with E neg and Jka neg units from now on; xm'd with fresh mom's sample according to our SOP. Here is a my new question. Do we have to give a baby Jka neg unit although mom had only anti-E at delivery? If we decide not to give Jka neg unit, IgG xm with mom's sample would be positive. Autumn.

Hi, We have a baby whose DAT is Pos, coated with maternal Anti -E. Now, we need to perform xm using the mom's plasma to transfuse the baby. We have a mom's specimen which is 5 days old (expired specimen) drawn before the delivery. Should we use the specimen for xm or do we need to draw a new specimen? Which one is the better choice? Thanks. Autumn

Anyone used Data Innovations Instrument Manager to interface ProVue with Mediware HCLL? Autumn.

We scan the problem specimen barcode manually using PV scanner. If this does not work, we enter the specimen number manually. We do not re label BB specimen.