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NewBorn Genetic Testing
What is it?
-It's a test, that newborn babies have to encounter, to find out if they have serious genetic diseases.
When does it occur?
-Newborn Genetic Testing, occurs at birth for babies.(Citation 13)
How does it work?
1. Get the blood sample from the babies feet.
2. Send it to the Lab.
3. Add 1 drop of the patient cells from EDTA tube to tube.
4. Wash these drops of blood 3-4X to remove plasma antibodies and make a 3% cell suspension.
5. Add a drop of 3% cell suspension to a clean labeled tube.
6. Add drop of Polyspecific AHG (Coombs Serum) to the tube. If test positive with polyspecific reagent, set up again using monospecific reagents to see if it is antibody or complement or both coating the cells.
7. Make test as sensitive as possible, so allow all negatives to incubate 5 minutes to enhance complement coating. Read all negatives microscopically to detect weak coating.
8. After getting the results, they will enter the data into the computer system according to the patient name and patient ID number.
9. In the computer system , the other laboratory technician, nurse and doctor will be able to check the result by using the computer for soft copy, or they can print a hard copy to put it in the patient chart. These test result are confidential.
10. Then whoever wants the test results needs to ask the patient to ask the lab department to release the results to them. (Citation 1)
Benefits:
-Newborn Genetic Testing provides the benefit of families being notified of their child having genetic diseases in the first few days of their lives.
-Diagnosis and treatments can occur early in life.
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