Table 4.
Frequently Used Techniques and Methods of Compatibility Tests in Blood Banks, Sana’a Capital, Yemen, 2016.
| Indicators | Public blood banks |
Private blood bank |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Blood Transfusion and Research Center | National Center of Public Health Laboratories | Kuwait University Blood Bank | University of Sciences and Technology Blood Bank | |
| Preform test technique | ||||
| ABO, Rh D | Tube | Tube | Slide | Slide |
| Reverse grouping | Tube | Tube | Not done | Not done |
| Cross matching (CXM) | Tube | Tube | Tube | Tube |
| Other preformed test | ||||
| D weak (Du) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Antibody screening | No | No | No | No |
| Samples keeping | ||||
| Keep patient and donor samples at least (5 days) | Yes | No | No | Yes |