3 July 2025 (Thursday) - BTLP-TACT Exercise

On the last day of last month (three days ago) I wrote on here: “That’s eight BTLP-TACT exercises I’ve done this month… I bet I get an email whinging about my low involvement by the end of the week”. That email came at two o’clock this afternoon…

 

So here we go again. I was presented with one case – a sixty-two year-old woman needing four units of blood right away for a GI bleed.

The ABO group was indeterminate. The cell group was B; the serum group AB. But the Rh group was negative. That’s one for NHSBT.

The antibody panel was positive in cells 1 and 2 so I requested antibody panels. The IAT and enzyme panels were positive in cells 1, 2 and 3 corresponding with anti-D but not excluding anti Cw

I issued four units of O Rh(D) Negative blood.

 

I got it right.