One of the main objectives of transfusion medicine is to promote safe transfusion. Continuous improvement involves the standardization of techniques used for quality control of reagents, adequate equipment evaluation and its maintenance and staff training. Quality control of reagents is critical for achieving reliable results in immunohematological testing. In Brazil, as far as we know, there are no minimum requirements for immunohematological reagent guidelines. This paper has the purpose of describing practical aspects of quality control in imunohematology, as well as providing information on the most common immunohematological reagents available on the Brazilian market.
Quality control; monoclonal antibodies; diagnosis; blood group reagents
