mjl1717
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What is Coombs serum?
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| peekay
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NEVER HEARD OF THIS. COULD U PLEASE REPHRASE YOUR QS.
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| mjl1717
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its anti human gamma globulin used in the Coombs test
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| bactitech
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Coombs serum is used in Blood Banking. I haven't done BB since 1988. Here's a link to information about a Direct Coombs test:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/0...
Indirect Coombs testing is the same as the "screen" part of a "type and screen" order for BB. Here's a link:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/0...
http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/1771700246.htm
Here's another link.
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| DrVirgo
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Coombs serum is "anti-human gamma globulin".
They make it by immunizing a horse or another animal with human gamma globulin.
Then the horse makes anti-human gamma globulin.
This coombs serum put in a human and can be used to detect autoantibodies against human RBC's in Hemolytic Anemia.
(the anti-human gamma globulin will bind the autoantibodies on the patient's RBCs) This can be seen by clumping of the blood.
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