26 August 2018 (Sunday) - A Matter of Opinion ?


A series of questions was posed in the Facebook Medical Laboratory Scientists group today:

Guys, I have a questions which can be answerable by true or false..

1. An electronic x-match can performed if patient has a history of previous of antibody but their current antibody screen is negative.
2. The remote data ABO/Rh does not count as the as the second sample. An ABO/Rh retype must be performed in MEDITECH before units can be selected for X-match.
3.If there is no previous record, as second specimen has to be drawn at different time before a patient is eligible for electronic x-matches.
4.eXM will allow a patient with a warm autoantibody to receive units that are antigen typed.
5.A serologic xmatch must be performed when MEDITECH is down and the patient has negative ABS and history of an antibody.
6. The patient's sample must be retrieved and scanned to perform electronic or serologic xmatches for additional units.

You can follow the argument which ensued by clicking here. Basically there were as many opinions offered as there were people to offer them. It is often worth bearing in mind that many of the discussion forums I use for CPD purposes are often opinion and not definitive
I quite liked the reply “Are we doing your homework here”…

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