This is the poll that Mary proposed the other day:

When the antibody screen and history are negative do you:

a. Perform a tube immediate spin crossmatch

b. Perform a buffered gel crosmatch

None of the above. We perform an electronic crossmatch.

Currently we do an IS crossmatch but I believe the electronic crossmatch is coming:)

This is the poll that Mary proposed the other day:

When the antibody screen and history are negative do you:

a. Perform a tube immediate spin crossmatch

b. Perform a buffered gel crosmatch

Thank you.

Thank you.

You are welcome:)

we would do an electronic crossmatch also

We perform an electronic crossmatch. Of course, during downtime we do an immediate spin crossmatch. We haven't considered buffered gel, but since it would take longer to do, I don't think it would really be an attractive alternative.

We perform an immediate spin crossmatch when we are doing testing manually. However, we have a ProVue so most of the crossmatches are actually buffered gel.

Electronic crossmatch!

BC