Competency information
Details
Select appropriate sera for the cross-matching of donor and recipients in accordance with local and national guidelines.
Considerations
- How to assure the quality of personal practice.
- Principles of laboratory methods for crossmatching donors and recipients for solid organ transplantation
- Complement dependent cytotoxicity
- Flow cytometry
- Internal quality controls and external quality assessment measures appropriate to the methods used.
- Problems likely to be encountered in these assays, including
- cellular/microbiological contamination
- false negative and positive reactions
- low/high cell yield
- poor viability of cells
- drug interactions
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome Select and perform laboratory tests required for the clinical work up of patients awaiting solid organ transplantation, including cross matching for solid organ transplantation. |
| # 5 | Outcome Apply specific accreditation standards governing the use of serological practices. |