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How often do you do an antibody workup on the same patient?

jojo808
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With patients with antibody history we run a panel on all new specimens. I'd go with the selected cells but I don't want to confuse the 'non Blood Banker' techs that sometimes cover. Much easier for them to simply put a panel on the Provue. 

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  • goodchild
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    The concept of going by the screen and only repeating antibody ID panels on a schedule seems so foreign to me that I'm kind of amazed by it.   To the hospitals that go by a policy of this nature   Do

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    I get the idea of using selected cells (negative for known Abs) in order to rule-out any other (new) Abs, but I never saw the logic in assuming because a screening panels results look the same that on

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