About Blood Typing
Objectives:
- What are the different blood groups in the AB0 and Rh factor blood group systems?
- Blood typing - how do you find out to which blood group someone belongs?
- Explain how a blood test is done in the laboratory.
- What antibodies and antigens occur in the blood of different blood groups?
- Who can receive blood from whom in a blood transfusion? Explain for each blood type
why a person can or cannot receive a blood type.
- Why is O- the universal donor? (Explain, do not say because they can donate blood to
anyone)
Why is AB the universal recipient? (Explain, do not say because they can receive blood
from anyone)
- What happens if someone is given the wrong blood in a blood transfusion? Why?
- What antibodies and antigens occur in the blood of different blood groups?
Read: “Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions"
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html
Now play the blood typing game and test your skills.
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/
*****Answer all objectives, they are test material.
About Blood Typing
Objectives:
- What are the different blood groups in the AB0 and Rh factor blood group systems?
- Blood typing - how do you find out to which blood group someone belongs?
- Explain how a blood test is done in the laboratory.
- What antibodies and antigens occur in the blood of different blood groups?
- Who can receive blood from whom in a blood transfusion? Explain for each blood type
why a person can or cannot receive a blood type.
- Why is O- the universal donor? (Explain, do not say because they can donate blood to
anyone)
Why is AB the universal recipient? (Explain, do not say because they can receive blood
from anyone)
- What happens if someone is given the wrong blood in a blood transfusion? Why?
- What antibodies and antigens occur in the blood of different blood groups?
Read: “Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions"
http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/readmore.html
Now play the blood typing game and test your skills.
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/
*****Answer all objectives, they are test material.