I
distinctly remembered this patient – we had a blood group on her yesterday. I
can distinctly remember that she was AB Pos, and on seeing the crossmatch
request I wondered if we had enough (or any) Kell-neg AB
Pos units in the fridge.
Status and Orders
Name:PTISTOP, PENELOPE Group & Abs O+
DoB:13/09/1996 Sex: F Pat No:0234567 Source: WDFR Requested 10:00
Address: 1 THE STREET
Clinician: MORAN 17/02/2015
Diagnosis: hb 68, iron deficient, symptomatic
Specimen No: TK123456Z
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| ANTS | SRPAD | PT
| XM | HPAT | TRIAL
| CPAD | CXM |
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| CMVNEG
| GEN |
IRR | |
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| Group
| x-Match | Antibody
| miSc. | Kleihauer |Prov grp |
|DG S000|X S000| |A S000|
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1 pRofiles 2 Flags 3 Enquire
4 Next 5 preVious 6 Other
7 eXit
Disc: TRANS Sect: TRK David Styles STATUS/APEX Overtype
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I was wrong
– she’s not AB Pos at all….. It really brings home the need to check, check and
check again. NEVER rely on memory…