Use of only male donors as a source of plasma intended for transfusion is advocated to reduce which type of reaction?

Isoimmunization to platelet antigen HPA-1a and the placental transfer of maternal antibody would be expected to cause newborn:

Which of the following abnormalities is consistent with the presence of LA?

Rh immune globulin administration would not be indicated in an Rh negative woman who has a(n):

A group A, D-negative obstetric patient with anti-D (titer 256) is carrying a fetus who needs and intrauterine transfusion. (You will be tranfusing the fetus via a needle passed through the mother’s abdomen into the umbilical cord.) Which of the following units should be chosen?

Platelets are ordered for a patient who has a history of febrile reactions following red cell transfusions. What should be done to reduce the risk of another febrile reaction?

In which of the following situations would the administration of Rh-immune globulin (RhIg) NOT be indicated? None of the women has received antenatal RhIg.

Which of the following matings has the potential to result in hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN) due to antigens in any of the systems identified?

Can crossmatching be performed on March 10, using a patient sample drawn on March 8?

A technologist obtained the following results on a patient sample: The technologist washed the patient’s cells with saline, and repeated the forward typing. A saline replacement tecnique was used with the reverse typing. The following results were obtained: Anti-A Anti-B Anti-A,B A1 Cells B Cells Original Results 4+ 3+ 4+ 2+ 4+ Results after washing patient’s cells and saline replacement 4+ 0 4+ 0 4+ The results are consistent with: