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005: Rh Genotyping with Connie Westhoff

Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast

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The Consequences of Receiving D Positive Blood

The best advice I give people is if it's weaker than you expect in your lab with your reagents and with your typing. The second one is the partial D where they have a qualitative issue. They're missing epitopes. And so as a result of that, if they see a normal D antigen from a regular D positive donor, they are at risk potentially of making anti D correct. If they're a woman, you know, she'd probably be given our age negative blood. We're not discriminating here, but we are trying to do best practice and save the our agenegative blood for the people that will have long term consequences.

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