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8/30 Can someone explain briefly what blood types are about and why this
woman died?
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_814563.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
\_ Dude, really. This is what google was made for. Or Biology 1, for
that matter. Take a couple of seconds to pull your own weight.
\_ Whatever. I did. I don't want a thesis paper. Something half
as long as it took you to abuse me would have been enough and
I still don't know.
\_ Give a man a fish...
\_ Not only is OP lazy, but also ungrateful.
\_ Red blood cells have "antigens" on their surfaces. People's immune
systems react to these "antigens". There are 3 major surface
antigens: A, B, and RH+. If you don't have either the A or B
antigen in your blood, you are blood type O. If you do not have
the RH+ antigen, you are RH-. Now, if you're type O, and someone
puts type B blood into you, your body reacts pretty much allergicly
to the B surface antigen. If you're type AB+, your body won't
react with any of the common surface antigens, A, B, nor RH+.
\_ Thanks!
react with any of the common surface antigens, A, B, nor RH+.
\_ Not only is OP lazy, but also ungrateful.
\_ Thanks! |
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| www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_814563.html?menu=news.latestheadlines A woman who swapped beds with another patient in their hospital room so she could be nearer the window died after receiving the wrong type of blood during surgery. In preparation for the surgery last month, a technician at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia mistakenly took a blood sample from the womans room-mate, hospital officials said. Hospital spokeswoman Beth Visioli said the woman had switched beds, but the death was the result of human error by a hospital employee. The technician did not follow the hospitals established procedures for identifying patients, which requires examining each patients wristband and having the patient state his or her name. The technician doesnt recall whether she asked the patient her name or not or whether she checked the armband, Russell Seneca, chairman of surgery at the hospital, said. Im not certain what transpired between the technician and the patient whose blood was drawn. The hospital now requires a second person to accompany a technician when blood is drawn as a safeguard against misidentification. The patient was in hospital for surgery to remove an abscess in her colon. The problem began on July 22, when a technician came to the patients room to take blood samples the laboratory could use to identify her blood type for the next days operation, the hospital said. During the surgery, the woman was given two pints of the wrong blood. It became clear near the completion of the surgery that her blood was not clotting properly, Mr Seneca said. Later, in the recovery room, the patient suffered a reaction to the transfused blood, which brought about kidney failure. Doctors struggled to reverse the reaction, but the woman died on July 24. The technician, described as an exemplary employee, was so distraught that she resigned, the newspaper reported. The hospital is withholding the technicians name as well as that of the patient. |