Labeling testing tubes/wells

[amblanki 11]

I'm curious how people out there are labeling their reaction tubes.  What patient information and reagent information do you put on your tubes?

[David Saikin 1,439]

If you are talking about tube tests, I label  A,B,D,Dct, a,b.  ABSC:  1, 2, 3.  With the pt initials underneath.

[Malcolm Needs ★ 4,921]

Patient initial and full surname and hospital number, together with the reagent used (e.g. anti-C, anti-D, anti-Lan, etc).  The reagent lot number and expiry date would be recorded elsewhere.

[amblanki 11]

Malcolm- are you handwriting that on every tube?

[jalomahe 132]

Patient first and last initials and reagent in the tube so for blood type it would be: JH-A, JH-B, JH-D, JH-DC for the front type and JH-AC, JH-BC for the reverse type.

[Malcolm Needs ★ 4,921]

3 hours ago, amblanki said:

Malcolm- are you handwriting that on every tube?

Yes.

[John C. Staley 1,193]

 

19 hours ago, jalomahe said:

Patient first and last initials and reagent in the tube so for blood type it would be: JH-A, JH-B, JH-D, JH-DC for the front type and JH-AC, JH-BC for the reverse type.

My personal system was virtually identical to yours except for the the reverse type I used JH-RA and JH-RB.

In the facilities where I was the Transfusion Service or Blood Bank supervisor my tube labeling requirement for the staff was that anyone in the department could set down an take over the testing and know who and what was in each tube.