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Dealing With Cold Agglutinins

dbarding13
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31 minutes ago, REN_NH said:

Does anyone have a flowchart for the workup of cold-reactive antibodies? I'm a Generalist using GEL BT, and GEL anti-IgG with tube IS XM and feedback on this is much appreciated as I am also working on updating policies.

I attached a few SOPs and a flowchart.

Please let me know if you need other items.

E-1-5_Identifying Cold Antibodies.docxE-4-6_Cold Autoadsorption.docxE-4-5_Cold Absorption Using RESt®.docxE-10-3_Cold Antibody Workup Process Flow.docx

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