Electronic Crossmatch

[BloodBank]

We have SoftBank Computer System and want to go for electronic crossmatch. Does anyone want to share their validation plan?

[lateonenite]

Do you have an assignment and issue module as well?

I'm re-editing this reply because somehow I got completely messed up with my new mac.....see my next entry.

Edited August 7, 2009 by lateonenite

[lateonenite]

We set up nine test patients, one for each blood group plus an unknown. Then we crossmatched (or attempted to) for every blood group and product type; i.e, Patient A Pos was crossmatched against "red cells in adsol" O pos, O neg, A Pos, A neg, B Pos, etc., then "red cells LD" O Pos, O neg, etc.

It tested that all of our patient-to-product compatibility rules were working across all of the applications, because we also tested our assignment and issue applications at the same time with the same patients/products.

The AABB guidelines have it that this validation has to be performed at every site - luckily the ANZSBT does not have that guideline.

It's time consuming, before we did this I had no idea that there were 12 different platelet types offered by the ARCBS (Australian). At least once its done it only needs to be done again whenever there is a product change by Red Cross.

Hope that helps.