18 February 2015 (Wednesday) - Checking

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 [---------T---------T---------T---------T---------T---------T---------T-- | ANTS    | SRPAD   | PT      | XM      | HPAT    | TRIAL   | CPAD    | CXM    | [----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T----T--      |         |         |         |         |         |         |      |      [---------T---------T---------T---------T---------T---------T-------    [-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T---------    |  CMVNEG   |  GEN      |  IRR      |           |               [-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T---------    [-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T---------    |   Group   |  x-Match  | Antibody  |   miSc.   | Kleihauer |Prov grp  |    |DG     S000|X      S000|           |A      S000|               [-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T-----------T--------- 1 pRofiles  2 Flags  3 Enquire  4 Next  5 preVious  6 Other  7 eXit  Disc: TRANS   Sect: TRK           David Styles       STATUS/APEX Overtype

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…