Don't use plastic tubes, stay with borosilicate glass. Static from the plastic will affect drop size adversely. As Malcolm said using CAT is better overall.
We did it easily by putting the gel card centrifuge in a 37C dry air incubator along with all the consumables. We waited 30 minutes to get all up to temp then did the testing. Worked great.
What is the Fya and S phenotyping for the 3 cell screen?
Test some more Fya neg, S neg RBCs as the enzyme panel was non reactive but IAT did react, also the cell tested that matches the patient's phenotype is reacting so something else is there too. Maybe it is anti-Fya+/- Anti-S + something else?
Send to red cell reference lab.
There is an article on this topic published in Immunohematology 2005; 21:94-96 by John Judd et al "On a much higher incidence of anti-c in R1R1 patients with anti-E".
I'd prefer that RhIg be issued by the Transfusion laboratory so that it is tracked in the Blood Bank's computer. It is an important blood product that the lab staff need to know about, its not an insignificant antibody.
1. Albumin - Blood Bank 2. Clotting Factor concentrates - Blood Bank 3. Rh Immune Globulin-intramuscular - Blood Bank so we can trace who has Rh prophyaxis 4. Rh Immune Globulin-intravenous (WinRho) - Blood Bank 5. IVIg - Blood Bank Only product shared with Pharmacy is NovoSeven. Blood Bank keeps the bulk but Pharmacy has some too.
I know we do re-type units for ABD from a segment integrally attached to the donor unit by way of a group check card on an analyser but have often wondered why we do this. Our blood is sourced from a licensed facility so why can't we "trust" their grouping if we trust their HIV, Hep, VDRL, NAT and so on?
I disagree Malcolm. We use Q-Pulse 5 and it is extremely complicated. I get so many e-mails telling me such and such is due for review or to be authorised etc its as annoying as getting spam. I regularly have 30+ emails from Q-Pulse reminding me of silly things like the folder spine names need their annual review or the title page of a method needs reviewing that it gets in the way of actual work. The system of checking out and checking in documents and whether they are in draft mode or active mode is needlessly complex.
We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.