We have SoftBank Computer System and want to go for electronic crossmatch. Does anyone want to share their validation plan?

Do you have an assignment and issue module as well?

I'm re-editing this reply because somehow I got completely messed up with my new mac.....see my next entry.

Edited August 7, 200916 yr by lateonenite

We set up nine test patients, one for each blood group plus an unknown. Then we crossmatched (or attempted to) for every blood group and product type; i.e, Patient A Pos was crossmatched against "red cells in adsol" O pos, O neg, A Pos, A neg, B Pos, etc., then "red cells LD" O Pos, O neg, etc.

It tested that all of our patient-to-product compatibility rules were working across all of the applications, because we also tested our assignment and issue applications at the same time with the same patients/products.

The AABB guidelines have it that this validation has to be performed at every site - luckily the ANZSBT does not have that guideline.

It's time consuming, before we did this I had no idea that there were 12 different platelet types offered by the ARCBS (Australian). At least once its done it only needs to be done again whenever there is a product change by Red Cross.

Hope that helps.