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when we order blood our area blood center sends a tracking sheet with the units. it will list the units and will list any known antigen statuses of those donors. the antigen results come from not only the blood center but area hospitals that have tested that donor before. now when that donor comes in again those antigens will print on the tracking sheet even though it is a different unit. it comes in handy to narrow down your search. you can also request the blood center to find you units that would be compatible for the antibodies found.

our or occasionally needs to remove the armband, our policy is the one that cut it off needs to put it back on the patient promptly. if this does not get done we start over again with a new sample. more often we get calls from floor nurses that say the band is getting tight etc and we send them a new outer sleeve and then put the insert in that and reattach. we had for a while nurses cutting armbands off and attaching them to the beds. this practice has stopped with education

we titer each antibody separatly. the baby was positive for both the big E and little c.

I was wondering what everyone does with a pregnant lady with a Big E and little c, when you titer. the panels we use you can either use a heterozygous E cell (RzR1 i believe) to titer the E or a Homozygous Big E cell with little c also on the cell? Do you report the titer from both the homozygous and hetero E cell? i was thinking neither result is accurate. the heterozygous E cell seems to give weak reactions and the homozygous E with the little c gives a false stronger reaction.