Interpretation Builder
Generate professional clinical interpretations for blood bank workups with automatic compatibility calculations.
Case & Findings
Pick a case type or common scenario — or choose from the full Special scenario list below.
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Which antigen(s) does the autoantibody show specificity for? Select one or more.
Use when anti-D is detected and attributable to RhIg administration. Add any previously-identified coexisting antibodies (e.g., anti-Lea) in the Antibody Findings section above and mark them as previously identified — they will appear in the header and drive the fallback-antigen transfusion clause.
Leave blank if no pre-RhIg screen is on record. A gap >14 days triggers the ambiguous-passive variant (with 6-month repeat-testing guidance).
Uncheck only if the patient has been confirmed as having immune anti-D (per ACOG PB 181).
Replaces the passive interpretation with active alloimmunization, future-pregnancy guidance and cited references. Enter the original report date to write an addendum instead of a full interpretation.
Use when a named non-ABO antibody (e.g. anti-Jk(a)) is detected shortly after IVIG and may have been passively acquired. The report reasons from the patient's own type of each antigen: antigen-positive → passive vs. autoantibody; antigen-negative or untyped → passive vs. alloimmunization. Nothing is coded on the header for the passive specificity (no antibody code exists for it). Antibodies in Antibodies Identified above that are not listed here — new, previously identified or outside-facility — are reported and carried into the plan. For passive anti-A / anti-B use the IVIg option under Output Options instead.
Follow-up ends the requirement only for a specificity the patient validly types positive for; anything else stays documented.
Set the patient's type of each antigen on its tag.
A serologic type within 3 months of a transfusion (or with the history unknown) is printed with a donor-cell caveat and treated as not established; reticulocyte and genotype types are exempt.
A genotype that disagrees, or shows a variant allele, is entered as the type itself: set the tag to Ag-negative or Ag-type unknown and the method to Genotype.
Plan: a passive specificity the patient types positive for adds no antigen requirement (AHG crossmatch compatible units), except while genotyping is pending, when its antigen-negative units are kept until the genotype confirms the type. One typed negative or untyped gets antigen-negative units, reassessed on later samples. With the eluate set to "Same specificity" and the plasma reactive only with enzyme-treated cells or nonreactive, the report says the antibody was identified in the eluate.
Use when gel panreactivity with a negative autocontrol is referred to a reference lab, titered, and DTT-treated, and reported as HTLA-like. For a sickle cell patient, set Patient Context → Sickle cell disease above to emit the CEK (C/E/K) matching variant.
When DTT abolished or diminished the reactivity, units are K-negative because anti-K cannot be excluded; a K-positive patient does not need them.
For a positive-autocontrol / warm-autoantibody component (and to resolve an outside-facility “anti-X (auto vs allo)”), also enable the Autoantibody section (Auto with specificity) above — it composes with this HTLA-like workup.
Use when a local panel was panreactive with a negative autocontrol, the sample was referred to a reference laboratory, and the reference lab identified the alloantibody. Enter the identified antibody in Antibodies Identified above — it still drives antigen-negative selection, significance and compatibility. This section narrates the sequence of testing.
A trailing parenthetical abbreviation — e.g. “(ARC IRL)” — is used for mentions after the first.
Records the alloadsorption exclusion with its high-frequency-antigen caveat. A listed adsorbed-plasma antibody also records adsorption. If neither adsorption nor selected-cell exclusion is recorded, the report states that exclusion could not be performed.
Records the reference laboratory's selected-red-cell exclusion. When adsorption is recorded, the alloadsorption statement takes precedence. The Rule-outs complete control does not change this report's statement.
These get their own sentence and are excluded from the “confirms the presence of…” list, which describes what the reference laboratory demonstrated directly.
Records that prewarm testing was attempted for a specificity but could not be completed. The antigen-negative disposition is unchanged — this only states why the thermal-amplitude question is unresolved.
Off by default. The wording follows published guidance and the reference laboratory's own recommendation.
Off by default. For when antigen-negative units cannot be obtained in time; it points to a Transfusion Medicine consultation and orders no test.
Use when a reference laboratory finished its workup but could not exclude underlying alloantibodies (e.g. an unidentified panagglutinin or HTLA-like reactivity persisted after adsorption). The report issues RBCs under Emergency Release; it does not offer Exceptional Release. Clinically significant antibodies in Antibodies Identified above — new, previously identified or reported by an outside facility — are carried into the antigen-negative requirement. Anti-M is included unless a warm component was excluded (the unresolved 37°C/AHG reactivity leaves it open); other cold-reactive specificities only when warm reactivity is documented. Clinically significant low-frequency antibodies (e.g. anti-C(w), anti-Js(a), anti-V) also get antigen-negative units, because no crossmatch can be compatible; antigens without in-house reagents come from the blood supplier. Anti-Lu(a) keeps only a crossmatch note. Patient Context (sickle cell, pregnancy), the Transfusion Recommendation section and IVIG group O selection are not used by this report.
Fill from an ARC IRL final report
Paste the report text, copied from the PDF or the LIS. Only what the report states is filled; everything else is left as it is and listed below. Transfusion history, hemolysis status and the antigens units will lack are yours to enter. The pasted text is not saved.
A trailing parenthetical abbreviation — e.g. “(ARC IRL)” — is used for mentions after the first.
Within 3 months: the eluate may reflect transfused donor red cells, and serologic typing is not used. Within 28 days: the delayed-reaction assessment is added.
Click an antigen to cycle: not typed → negative → positive. Serologic typing within 3 months of transfusion is not used for the plan. k is offered once K is typed positive, or for genotyping; enter any other reported k under Other antigens typed.
A typed-negative result is not required. An antigen the patient types positive for is unavailable: an antibody to it would be a suspected autoantibody (or a variant antigen). K is locked on after DTT, and clinically significant antibodies identified above are added automatically.
Use when an alloantibody is identified but the patient was recently transfused (within 3 months), producing a DAT+/autocontrol+ pattern that could be confused with warm auto. Reference-lab genotyping predicts the patient's true cognate-antigen status.
Suggestions are drawn from newly-identified antibodies above. Type and press Enter to pick the first match.
When pre-transfusion DAT is unavailable, the interpretation will emit "Pre-transfusion DAT unavailable."
Pick from the dropdown or choose "Custom..." for free-text entry.
Use when the lab detects reactivity at cold phases without identifying a specific antibody. The output label is derived automatically: "cold autoantibody" if autocontrol or DAT-C3 is positive, otherwise "cold antibody."
Use when the patient is on a therapeutic monoclonal antibody known to interfere with pretransfusion testing. Replaces the standard transfusion paragraph with drug-specific guidance.
Document a bolus of previously-identified or outside-facility findings — they fold onto the header lines without a full per-finding workup. Enter alloantibodies in Antibody Findings (mark them previously identified / OSH); nonspecific reactivity uses Output Options.
Off = header line only. On = append each finding's clinical-significance note.
Automatically includes donor compatibility statistics based on selected antibodies
These mirror the quick overrides beside the generated interpretation.
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