ABSTRACT
OK, so a crossmatch involves the donor unit RBCs and your patient’s plasma. Thus, the Blood Bank does not crossmatch FFP, cryoprecipitate or platelets, as these products do not contain significant numbers o f red cells. You may have heard about crossmatching platelets in cases o f platelet refractoriness. This is not commonly done and not performed at all in many hospitals. We’ll discuss it briefly in Chapter 4.
