
088: Warm Autoantibody Best Practices with Alyssa Ziman and Meghan Delaney
Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
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Is the DAT a Good Tool for Monitoring Hemolysis?
It's important at the initial detection to kind of tie the picture together and then for subsequent testing with the history of transfusion you're looking to find a new alloy on a body or evidence of a delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction. Yes for subsequent testing and that's what we described also in this table three from our review. We've found that it really is not a useful tool that following a patient's hemoglobin is much more effective to see if there is molysis. You know people's immune systems work differently in terms of how much IgG is coding the red cells and whether that red cell is removed from circulation so the literature doesn't support itOur practice doesn't support
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