Per transfusion verification of the patient blood type when a historical type was not completed at Allina Health or positive patient identification was not completed using bedside barcoding technology.

Lavender (EDTA), 4mL

Use aseptic technique

Label Specimen:

1. Patient first and last name (Use legal name.)
2. Patient medical record number
3. Date of sample collection
4. Time of collection
5. Phlebotomist identifier

Refrigerate whole blood specimen 2-8C

Aliquot of samples are not accepted.

Lavender (EDTA), 4 mL

Two (2) Microtainer - lavender (EDTA) tubes

Refrigerated (preferred) - 7 days

Ambient - immediately transport to the laboratory

• Labeling errors
• Aliquots
• Wrong tube type used in collection.
• Collected tubes in gel separator tube.
• Gross Hemolysis
• Gross Lipemia
• Gross Icterus

Agglutination, Column-agglutination

The ABO system is regarded as the most important blood-group system in transfusion medicine because of severe hemolytic transfusion reactions.

The Rh blood group system is the second most important blood group system, after the ABO blood group system.