quality control (blood typing)

Question 1

evidences of contamination or deterioration of reagents

Answer 1

• marked turbidity of blood grouping reagents
• hemolysis of reagent red blood cells

Question 2

after inspecting the reagents, what is the next to do?

Answer 2

record the lot number and expiration date of each reagent and observations on the corQC data sheet

Question 3

what will you label in each tubes

Answer 3

• Anti-A
• Anti-B
• Anti-A,B
• Anti-D
• A1 cells
• B cells

Question 4

after labelling, what is next thing to do?

Answer 4

• add 1 drop of each reagent in all tubes
• add 1 drop of corQC reagent cells to the 1st 4 tubes
• add 1 drop of corQC antiserum to the last 2 tubes

Question 5

centrifuge all tubes for ___

Answer 5

30 secs

Question 6

after centrifuge, what could be the next thing to do?

Answer 6

suspend each rbc button and examine for agglutination and record the results

Question 7

reagents/supplies needed

Answer 7

• serological centrifuge
• buffered saline
• test tube and racks
• marking pen
• QC data sheet
• Cor QC reagent cells
• Cor QC reagent anti-sera