Transfusing Transfusions - Is There a Waiver?

At our institution we do have electronic cross match and so if there is a warm auto with no underlying allo antibodies we move on to electronic cross match. We've switched over to the term most compatible as opposed to least incompatible because we truly are providing the most compatible blood for these patients. If you're new to a blood banking call schedule I would suggest that you practice your speech for how you're going to talk to a transfusion a transfusing clinician about what this means.