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KB Stain 30 members have voted

  1. 1. Which department does your KB stain?

    • Hematology
      9
    • Blood Bank
      17
    • Send out
      4
    • use Flow cytometry
      0

  2. 2. what is your turnaround time?

    • ASAP
      17
    • 24 hrs
      8
    • with in 72 hrs
      1
    • other
      4

  3. 3. Generalist or dedicated blood banker

    • KB in BB & Generalist
      9
    • KB in blood bank and dedicated blood banker
      9
    • KB in hematology and Generalist
      10
    • KB in hematology, dedicated Heme techs
      2

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  • David Saikin
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    If the patient is Rh negative you could just give Rhogam.  We will do a rosette test if the pregnancy is 12 weeks or longer along.  Usually in a trauma they are looking to see if the placental circula

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Blood Bank

ASAP, usually

KB in BB & Generalist (all my techs are generalists)

comment_63732

Done by the BB (ordered as misc. Heme test) - all float techs are generalists and only a handful kept competent to read (currently 5 techs), all stain slides. TAT = 24 hours.

comment_63799

I answered the poll. We do them in blood bank (heme won't touch them) and of course the docs want them super stat because they're only done for traumas... we keep 'trying' to 'fail' the CAP survey but they make the range so wide it's basically impossible. :wacko:

comment_63813

If our fetal bleed screen is positive, we send out to a reference lab for Flow Cytometry for fetal erythrocytes.  We stopped doing KB years ago.

Usually done in 72 hours.

 

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comment_63820
On 1/22/2016 at 2:13 PM, tbostock said:

If our fetal bleed screen is positive, we send out to a reference lab for Flow Cytometry for fetal erythrocytes.  We stopped doing KB years ago.

Usually done in 72 hours.

 

How about abdominal trauma cases? they usually need results STAT...

 

comment_63840
On Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Eagle Eye said:

How about abdominal trauma cases? they usually need results STAT...

 

Yeah, I know.  It's a problem.  I've brought this up multiple times.  It's one of those things that nobody cares about until it happens and then they'll be yelling.  Usually for trauma they just want confirmation of a bleed because that is the 1st indicator that the baby is in trouble; they're not worried about the RhIg issue just yet.

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13 minutes ago, tbostock said:

Yeah, I know.  It's a problem.  I've brought this up multiple times.  It's one of those things that nobody cares about until it happens and then they'll be yelling.  Usually for trauma they just want confirmation of a bleed because that is the 1st indicator that the baby is in trouble; they're not worried about the RhIg issue just yet.

If the patient is Rh negative you could just give Rhogam.  We will do a rosette test if the pregnancy is 12 weeks or longer along.  Usually in a trauma they are looking to see if the placental circulation is compromised.

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