Ehowell66

Hi folks, Currently when a patient does not have a prior blood type on file, we will collect a second specimen (drawn at different time, different person). The forward type is repeated and resulted as the second type. This was set up before I became supervisor. Recently a CAP inspector told me she thought all ABO/Rh typing's needed a forward and reverse done. How do you do your retypes? Based on TRM 40550 it seems the retype would need a reverse typing as well, thoughts? Thank you

I am looking at instruments and I would like any imput that anyone is willing to share. If anyone uses the Ortho Vision or the Tango, what are your likes and dislikes? We currently have the Echo. Thanks in advance

I am a new supervisor and I have been reviewing QC for upcoming inspection. I found that there is no daily QC on the MTS diluent 2. What does everyone use for their positive and negative controls? We only use the IgG cards. We do not use the ABD cards. Any help would be greatly appreciated? I need to correct this issue quickly.

Hi everyone, I am a new supervisor and I need a little help. Our lab has two Echos, and we use gel and tubes also. When doing comparison studies do I need to run my patients on both echos as well as the gel and tubes. Also, we use the Echos, with tube and gel as back up for antibody identification. Do we need to do comparison for antibody identification as well? The previous supervisor had a procedure in place but what was being done was not satisfactory. What is the rule for using CAP survey samples?. ex Echo to test antibody identification The procedure we have in place states to run at least four patient samples, how many do you run against all methods for the comparison studies? Thanks in advance for all your help. It can be a little overwhleming at times