Glossary: Immediate Spin Phase

Glossary Immediate Spin Phase The first of the three classic “phases” of testing serum and red cells for compatibility, most commonly in test tubes (the last two are the 37C and AHG phases). The term “immediate spin” refers to the fact that...

Glossary: Lookback

Glossary Lookback A multistep process a blood establishment must complete as a response to a donor who is newly reactive for an infectious disease test. The whole idea behind lookback is to (guess what?) “look back” to find previously collected blood...

Glossary: RESt

Glossary RESt Acronym for “Rabbit Erythrocyte Stroma,” which is a commercial product used by some blood bankers to remove (or “adsorb”) cold antibodies from a patient’s blood sample. These antibodies are usually autoantibodies) that have...

Glossary: Serologic Crossmatch

Glossary Serologic Crossmatch A compatibility test between donor red blood cells and recipient serum or plasma, performed in a test tube or other testing platform. There are two main types of serologic crossmatch: 1) Immediate-spin crossmatches, and 2) AHG...

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