Blood Bank Antibody Titer in Meditech

[rcracer09]

Has any Meditech users out there built an Antibody Titer profile to include each of the tube dilutions (1:1--->1:2048) as part of entering results? Currently my users are entering their tube dilution and end point results on hard copy and entering the end point results in LIS. I'm trying to streamline paperwork to have all results entered in LIS. I would set up the tube dilutions result entry as non-reportable T-test and the endpoint result to be reported out. Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks

[rrcc1974]

Our cold agglutinin titre is set up with the dilutions.

[rcracer09]

David,

Thanks for your response. Did you setup your cold titer profile as I indicated in my post? How many T-tests did you setup for each of the diultions?Our site is on Meditech Magic 5.64.

[rrcc1974]

The Group test has a T test for each titre (1-2048).

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! 1 in something isn't a titre; it's a dilution!

A titre is the reciprocal of the dilution, e.g. a dilution of 1 in 256 is a titre of 256.

Yours,

Pedantic of Croydon

[rrcc1974]

My bad! I should have typed (1 to 2048) I was referring to the titres 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024 and 2048.

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

No, David, it wasn't your post. It was one of the ones above yours.

[ANORRIS]

My bad! I should have typed (1 to 2048) I was referring to the titres 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024 and 2048.

That's OK...we all know what you meant.

[rcracer09]

Malcolm,

Like David I was referencing the tube dilutions (not reported) and yes we are reporting the titer as a reciprocal of the dilution (end point).

Sorry if my question was not clear.

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

Thanks for that rcracer09; that's eases my aching head no end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Pepper]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! 1 in something isn't a titre; it's a dilution!

A titre is the reciprocal of the dilution, e.g. a dilution of 1 in 256 is a titre of 256.

Yours,

Pedantic of Croydon

Kind of makes you want to want to call anti-K anti-Kell and RhIG Rhogam in front of Malcolm, doesn't it?

[Dr. Pepper]

We have Meditech and I'm sure the suggested test format would work fine. We have a paper worksheet, though, that we just file along with the panel scoresheet from that specimen.

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

Ah Phil - it's a hard life being a pedant; believe me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Pepper]

Ah Phil - it's a hard life being a pedant; believe me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand completely. The word pedant, by the way, is thought to derive from the French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme & Hatzfeldster's Dictionnaire général de la langue française) or its older mid-15th Century Italian source pedante, "teacher, schoolmaster". (Compare the Spanish pedante.) The origin of the Italian pedante is uncertain, but multiple dictionaries suggest that it was contracted from the mediaeval Latin pædagogans, present participle of pædagogare, "to act as pedagogue, to teach". The Latin word is derived from Greek παιδαγωγός, paidagōgós, παιδ- "child" + ἀγειν "to lead", which originally referred to a slave who escorted children to and from school but later meant "a source of instruction or guidance"...........

Edited March 12, 2013 by Dr. Pepper

[Malcolm Needs ☆]

From where on Earth did you get that??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Pepper]

Why, off the top of my pedantic head! Actually, it just took a few seconds to look it up on Wikipedia and cut and paste. I just thought it would be fun be be a pedant discussing pedantry. Kind of made me feel like an autoantibody.

[jsherrie]

We...bloodbankers....are weird birds....arn't we?............just joking....I go to Wikipedia for many many explanations.