BankerGirl

We have been live with Meditech BBK module for 2.5 years now and have never heard of TAR. Our nurses use the PCS module to document their transfusions and it seems to capture the same data as what I am understanding TAR does. We have no problem with vitals flowing into BBK. Have you looked into PCS instead?

We do centrifuge and pipette the supernatant off prior to testing. I guess I will try centrifuging a few more times to see if that helps. I also am going back to using Immucor cells, as I have heard it may be due to that also. We are seeing many of the weak, non-specific reactions in our antibody screens and panels and we need to retest with Immucor cells anyway, so I am hoping that will help in that aspect as well.

YES! we get a few weak non-specific reactions a week. I love the Anti-fuju!!

I don't believe so, since it is not evident on the positive cells, and we do centrifuge the eluate quite well.

Does anyone have problems with gel giving mixed field reactions on their eluates? We have just begun using gel and are trying to correlate the eluate testing. We have run into a few samples that test fine in tube but show mixed field reactions in gel. The truly positive cells seem show clear positive reactions in the gel, it is the ones that should be negative that are a problem (i.e., solid line on top of the gel and a cell button on the bottom). Thanks!