11 May 2026 (Monday) - BTLP-TACT Exercise

 

I’ve got backache and it’s raining. I might as well do a BTLP-TACT exercise, mightn’t I?

It gave me two cases:

 

44156 – a forty-two year-old woman with liver disease and bleeding needing four units of FFP.

The control well failed so the group was uninterpretable.

The antibody screen was negative.

I issued two units of AB FFP as there was only two units there.

 

34387 – an eighty-four year-old chap in A&E also with liver disease just requiring group and save.

He grouped as O Rh(D) Negative with antibody screen positive in wells 1 & 3 so I performed antibody panels.

The enzyme panel was negative throughout.

The IAT panel was positive in cells 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 10 corresponding with anti- s but not excluding anti-Kp(a)

 I got the green light.