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Hi All, I have a question, but firstly good old story time for some context. I came across a patient who had positive antibody screen on all three screening cells used (BioRad). I was concerned this may be an auto and pan-reactive, and required units. Performed a monospecific DAT, showing a pos...
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Question: Do you bill for all crossmatches performed? Or only the ones that were ordered? Example: 1 RBC is ordered. Patient has a an antibody. You grab 4 units and crossmatch through Coombs. You then antigen type the compatible units. Do you bill for four XMs? Or just one? What about antigen t...
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Looking for others in smaller hospital settings encountering DARA patients in blood bank; we plan to send affected antibody screens and crossmatches to our blood center's reference lab for workup and have them send us crossmatched units. Currently we do not plan to add DTT to our in-house testing,...
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It's been years since I've done test tube blood banking and even then I didn't have to do any sort of daily qc. I'm bringing back the option of running a test tube IS xm to speed up add on units and I don't know if there's any sort of QC required for this. It's patient vs donor. Is there anything to...
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Question: How do you proceed when a provider is adding units on a specimen from a different date (<3 days) in your LIS (I use Meditech)? I am a little confused about this issue, some techs at our lab add on units to the original specimen, others redo a TS and crossmatch on new order... spe...
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Our current procedures for blood type (and anything including that) state that we need to do a patient re-type if there is no blood type history on the patient. We will just do a forward type on the current specimen. We are going to be setting up electronic crossmatch (soon, I hope) and will be re...
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Greetings, How long do you hold red cell units in a crossmatched status? For the life of the specimen? For 24 hours? Also, do you crossmatch the same unit on multiple patients? Thanks!
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What is your facility's procedure for crossmatching patients with a history of anti-Bg? For example, do you use gel crossmatch or another method? Our location doesn't have antisera for antigen typing. -
We are in the process of updating our crossmatch procedure. I am wondering what the policies are at other Blood Banks if an Anti-M reacting at AHG is detected. Do you give extended crossmatch compatible or antigen negative? Also, what is the procedure if the Anti-M only reacts at immediate spin?...
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Is anyone out there currently using Cerner Millennium for electronic crossmatch? I would mostly like to know how and when the unit is assigned via electronic crossmatch. Does the computer automatically assign the unit, or is the unit to be electronically crossmatched scanned in to be assigned? Is...
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I am researching a buying guide for laboratory managers looking to update the analyzers in their transfusion laboratories. I am interested to know what you are using for crossmatching and 'group and types/screens'. Feedback I have had so far is that there are a lot of Immucor Echo/Neo's and Ortho Pr...
