Case Study 1An 83-year-old female is undergoing pre-op testing which includes a type and screen with a 2-unit red cell crossmatch. One 7mL EDTA tube was collected, labeled with her full name, date of birth, medical record number, collection date and time, and the collector's initials. The sample was acceptable per the blood bank's specimen acceptability procedure. The sample was processed and test

An 83-year-old female is undergoing pre-op testing which includes a type and screen with a 2-unit red cell crossmatch. One 7mL EDTA tube was collected, labeled with her full name, date of birth, medical record number, collection date and time, and the collector's initials. The sample was acceptable per the blood bank's specimen acceptability procedure. The sample was processed and tested on the bench with the traditional tube method. Results are displayed in Table 20. Review the reactions (shown in the images on the right and listed in the table) and consider how to respond to each item listed below. Then click on the item for interpretation and case resolution.