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Even0404

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  1. Sorry to bring up such an old thread. All of our patient records are saved in the LIS, but QC records were not. We have been DVD archiving every week for the past five years to cover this. We are currently switching from a Galileo to a Neo. We were caught off guard when the Immucor tech said that we would not be able to open our archive disks without renting the old Galileo PC from them (until we can discard the QC records). This is something we do not want to do, so we have been going back and printing them up. This is a long process that uses a lot of paper and space, but we see no other viable option at this time. The Neo does not open the Galileo archive disks. So far, we have not found a way to read comprehendible results on a regular PC. I guess this is just something we overlooked and took for granted. I just wanted to post this so other labs do not get caught in the same trap. We will be trying to incorporate the QC results for the NEO into our LIS in the future, or at least printing them out as we go. We also have an Echo this is an issue with as well. Does anyone else have it set up so they can export QC right into their LIS? If not we will probably manually enter QC values into the LIS every QC run. We currently have Safetrace Wyndgate.
  2. We depend on the nurses checking the computer system for routine blood orders only. We still call Stat blood orders and all other blood products ordered. This at least halves the number of phone calls we used to make. We do not log these calls because it is in the computer that blood is ready, even though once in a while it would be useful to remember who you talked to. Unless there is a obvious pop up on the patient chart with something for the nurse or care provider to press to acknowledge that stat blood is ready, I don't see a call becoming unnecessary for stat orders. Our interfaces were just set up recently to allow this to work and before this we called with every order. There was some resistance and "why didn't you call mes" this from the floors but it seems to be OK now. We are also working on the floors being able to see if there is a current sample and expiration of the current sample, so they know when to draw a new type and screen. This is a work in progress though because of varying circumstances of each patient.
  3. I should clarify that when we go to manual solid phase screening, we do not use the pre-embedded strips. We test with select strips that we embed with immucor bottled screening cells. Also, some lots do this much more than others but we rarely go a whole lot without this situation coming up a few times.
  4. Hi Everyone, I am new to this site, but could not find any threads specifically pertaining to some of the peculiar solid phase issues my lab seems to deal with. We have one Echo, one Galileo, and a solid phase station. We have been using them for a number of years. Like many people have posted on the forum, there seems to be some strong panagglutiniation “false positives” but ours only appear on the machines. Interestingly, if we run these samples in manual solid phase (MSP), both the screens and panel cells will be negative (or show an underlying antibody). Warm autos are then ruled out. If it is still a panagglutinin in MSP, we move to gel and follow through with warm auto testing. Though MSP is supposed to be a little less sensitive than the machines, a 3+ does would not normally turn negative. I am posting to see if anyone has the same experience, where machine solid phase testing is all positive and manual solid phase testing is negative. This leads me to believe that the “solid phase antibody is actually an antibody to the pre-embedded screen and panel strips because there is no other difference between the two testing methods. Does any one else go to manual solid phase before going to their secondary method?
  5. Welcome to the forums Even0404 :)

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