Understanding ABO Discrepancies in Blood Banking

Has this season been too simple? Want to up the difficulty? First of all you have issues, but second of all, welcome! It’s time to talk about all the things we don’t tell people about in the wider hospital - rare blood groups, subgroups, laboratory tips, tricks and more on this bumper In The Lab episode. 

Timestamps:

0:52 - How to get rich quick
3:58 - Episode overview
4:50 - The other blood groups
9:07 - Kell
11:37 - Duffy
13:54 - Kidd
16:53 - MNS
18:46 - ABO subgroups
22:28 - D variants
28:29 - Enzymes in pretransfusion testing
33:35 - Elutions
37:46 - Adsorptions
44:05 - ABO discrepancies
47:01 - Take home messages

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