Hey all,
I was wondering how you all QC your Anti-A1 lectin, particularly if you use commercial A2 red cells as your negative control. Background: We do not QC Anti-A1 lectin daily only as needed, we use commercial A1 red cells as our pos control, A2 as our neg. However, we then QC our A2 cells (bc they are not included in the QC of our daily rack QC) which I find to be unneccesary and wasteful. Why would you QC your QC? You are accessing the functionality of Anti-A1 not the A2 cells, right? Why not just use B cells if they have to be QC'd. Just curious if I am missing something. I am really wanting to get rid of this practice if possible, and I am currently going through CAP and AABB standards for clarity.
Thanks