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What makes an antibody significant?

The transfusion nurse calls the blood bank 5 minutes after a unit of packed cells were issued to say that the unit is not needed at this time. It is important for the nurse to bring the unit back immediately so that the temperature of the unit does not exceed:

What is Kell’s antithetical partner?

Describe the difference between a positive autocontrol and a positive DAT.  What is being tested in each situation?  What are we trying to detect?  What conclusions can be drawn from each positive test?

Describe the difference between an abbreviated crossmatch and a full crossmatch.  Identify a situation or patient characteristic in which you would complete each.

A blood component should be transfused within:

Anaphylactic transfusion reactions are caused by:

To remove the interfering affects of auto-antibody in the presence of allo-antibody, the patients cells are first incubated with patient’s serum, then the cells are centrifuged and an antibody screen may be performed on this specimen.  This technique is know as:

What ABO type are screen and panel cells?

Which of the following is reason for indefinite deferral of prospective blood donors?  (hint: select 3)