QC of Screening cells for reactivity

[Tony R]

As already mentioned Immucor has discontinued it's Human Anti-D and it's Rh control. We use a 1:200 dilution of Immucor Human Anti-D for our daily QC of our Screening cells for reactivity. Can anyone tell me how you currently do your QC for your screening cells. (tube testing our instrument does it's own QC) I know in the past, we used to use a dilution of Anti-Fya for this but I can not remember the dilution that we used. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tony

[LAURAA80]

We use Immucor corQC. Item#0002400. It is a kit of red cells and antisera. We use the kit for positive control for ABORH and screen. Hope this helps.

Laura

Edited June 7, 2012 by LAURAA80

[Tony R]

Thanks I'll check it out. I find it odd that when I e-mailed our sales Rep the only answer I got was that it was forwarded to our SBB specialist who never got back to me.

Later

Tony

[BBCLS]

We use Ortho Confidence for ABORH and screen.

[Barbarakym]

We use Ortho Confidence for ABORH and screen.

So do we. And We make our own Rh Control (diluted albumin to 6%)

[Mabel Adams]

If I remember right Hemobioscience sells a lot of human source antibodies pretty cheaply if you don't want to buy a QC kit. Some QC kits I think have a mixture of anti-K and anti-k in them and I think Ortho's kit has anti-D and anti-c so that all reagent cells are positive.