Hello,

I just want to know how each and everyone from the different parts of the world and states handle their frozen rare red cell access.

What i mean is for example when one is doing a workup and needed a cell that was frozen what are your methods of accessing, do you use a database program or the old fashioned index card method like seraching for books in a library.

Thank you and have a great weekedn.

We use a database, invented by, and very efficiently kept up-to-date by my colleague, Alan Gray. Over the years of the screening he has performed to find rare donors, and gifts from other Centres, SCARF, etc, and his hard work, he has built up a collection that is second only to the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory in the UK.

This has made life very easy for us to identify rare antibodies, and I sometimes feel like a pig in clover!!!!!!!!!!!!