The hemolytic anemia resolved with packed red cell transfusions, intravenous immune globulin, and steroid treatment. It was concluded that a complete immunohematologic evaluation, including a DAT, cold agglutinin, and Donath-Landsteiner antibody tests, is pivotal to prompt and accurate assessment of the cause of an abrupt onset of severe anemia in children. In recent years, there has been increased discussion about the potential of expert systems to support medical decision-making tasks, including applications in clinical laboratory settings. It explores alternative designs for expert systems developed to reduce such errors. The system design that automatically completed subtasks for the technologist induced a 29 percent increase in errors relative to the design that critiqued technologists as they completed the analyses themselves.
Many clinical situations involve the platelet transfusion support of patients with thrombocytopenia.
The Transfusion Medicine service plays a key role in the care of patients in that they are expected to provide quality blood products and aid in clinical decision making. Issues often encountered are the effectiveness, efficiency, and appropriateness of the products being given. It fixed complement and was a mixture of IgG1 and IgG3. Two biological assays, the monocyte monolayer assay and the chemiluminescence test, were strongly positive. The father was found to be heterozygous for the GP.Mur gene.