Antie D: It's a quick, easy test to detect FMH. Much easier than KB especially as far as competency.

Antie D: It's a quick, easy test to detect FMH. Much easier than KB especially as far as competency.

 

KB is dead easy though - I don't understand why anyone would have an issue? Surely by lessening the number done you are decreasing the competency of people?

 

I'm actually in the process of developing a modified KB stain that will make it even easier

Just got the new lot, 48833 of Immucor's FMH kit and the positive control is better, so that's good!

 

DITTO!

Yay

We have had the same problem at our hospital with the positive control being very weak. I called Immucor and they sent another Rapid Screen same lot number to see if the kit was better. It was no better than the other one. I had one tech to tell me, if he let it sits for 10 min instead of 5 min, the positive control worked better. I don't know if this is allowed, since the instructions say to let it incubate for 5 min at room temp and wash four times.

The insert for FMH Rapid Screen specifically states that the incubation time may not be exceeded by more than one minute. I would not incubate for 10 minutes unless I did a thorough validation for that change in procedure.