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I am enormously honoured to announce that I am going to be awarded the Gold Medal of the British Blood Transfusion Society at their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton this year.  It is awarded to an individual for their exceptional and long standing services to the Society and to the practice of blood transfusion in the UK.  Sorry if this sounds egocentric, but I am very excited.

I just answered this question.


My Score PASS  

"I'm happy if my techs just get the right day of the week and AM or PM."
Ain't that the truth!

We are a 350 bed hospital with some outreach labs - and have used the Immucor Echo ~ 6 years - and it works well for us.

Well we have a bed count of around 140 and recently bought an Immucor Galileo Echo (solid phase)  which is designed for smaller labs. What may be more important to know is what is your daily volume of types, screens, antibody Ids etc within the Blood Bank. We have no outreach so we see samples one or two at a time only on all three shifts. So the Echo works well for us but can take several samples at one time. I have heard that the Ortho Diagnostics Provue is only appropriate for very large labs and there were two of them at a lab I worked for that transfused about 3000 units per month. Personally, if you are short on staff, I would avoid the manual Ortho gel as you still need someone to sit there to do the incubation etc manually. Hope this helps.