Open AccessFirst Indian study to establish safety of immediate-spin crossmatch for red blood cell transfusion in antibody screen-negative recipients
Author(s) -
Aseem Kumar Tiwari,
Geet Aggarwal,
Ravi C Dara,
Dinesh Arora,
Garima Gupta,
Vimarsh Raina
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
asian journal of transfusion science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.262
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1998-3565
pISSN - 0973-6247
DOI - 10.4103/0973-6247.200774
Subject(s) - medicine , red cell , hemolysis , red blood cell , blood transfusion , antibody , surgery , immunology
The US Food and Drug Administration and American Association of Blood Banks approved the type and screen approach in 1980s, long after antibody screen (AS) was introduced in 1950s. The present study omits conventional anti-human globulin (AHG) crossmatch and replaces it with immediate-spin (IS) crossmatch as part of pretransfusion testing in AS-negative patients to study the safety and effectiveness of IS crossmatch in recipients.