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20.01.2012. One of the areas I work in is blood transfusion. So we deal with blood groups. Unlike what many laymen think, there's more to blood groups than being "A positive", "AB negative is the rarest blood group" or "you can give O negative to anyone". Whilst there is some truth to the two latter ones, it's not the whole truth.
Unlike what many television dramas might make you think, AB negative person does not need find another AB negative by a lucky chance to be able to have a blood transfusion. If AB negative blood is not available, A negative or B negative will do. Biggest hospital blood banks usually stock at least a few units of AB negative anyway.
O negative should be used sparingly and only in the direst emergency, unless the person needing the transfusion is actually O negative themselves. O negative does not magically grow in trees, or in labs, it actually comes from actual, real people donating blood, hence the reason why it's often in short supply.
Shall I mention antibodies? That's where the problems usually start.
Blood transfusion can be either very straightforward process, or a very complicated process, or anything in between.
Main point of this photo is that there are at least 30 different blood group systems, out of which can be created almost an endless amount of individual blood group combinations, because some systems contain dozens of different antigens (Rh being the biggest with around 50), so... what was your blood group again? ;-)
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