Time for a BTLP-TACT exercise. It gave
me two cases:
52493 – a fifty-two year-old chap in theatre needing four units of blood for a GI bleedHe grouped as A Rh(D) Positive with a negative antibody screen.The software had presented me with IAT Ab ID which was negative throughout. What was that all about?I issued four units of A Rh(D) Positive K Negative blood72993 – a sixty-two year-old chap in out-patients with thalassaemia needing two units of blood tomorrow.He grouped as B Rh(D) Positive with a negative antibody screen.The software had also presented me with IAT Ab ID which was negative throughout. What was that all about?I issued two units of B Rh(D) Positive K Negative blood
I got the thumbs-down. It claimed the D
group of the second case was uninterpretable. Was it? Bearing in mind I can’t
call it up, I’ll have to trust it… Possibly my attention was on the unwanted
IAT screens it had randomly generated? It pays to stay alert…