Pathologist comments on antibody identifications

[Sandy L]

We do have a "Blood Bank Information" test that is added to Antibody ID.  We have some pre-approved canned comments for the commonly encountered antibodies that are resulted out.  The comments include clinical significance (whether reported to cause hemolytic transfusion reactions or HDN) as well as % of compatible donors.  They also will include a warning when it would take a while to get blood (eg.if we need to get units from blood supplier, R2R2, etc).  We are a multi-hospital system.  At one of our hopsitalss, the pathologists want to review if it is the first time the antibody is identified for a patient.  At that site the Clin Lab Scientits reports the 1st time ABID then it goes to the pathologist and finally the Blood Bank Info is reported after Path review.  The rest of our sites, the pathologist do not review the ABID workups.

Edited October 6, 2014 by Sandy L