Biology 30S – Cardiovascular | Blood Unit:Work sheet #4Name:

Answer the following questions:

  1. This cool dude just fell from a Parkour accident. He is bleeding profusely and needs a blood transfusion. List the steps you would need to do to identify his blood type. Provide a hypothetical blood type in your procedures.
  1. If his blood type was to be B-, what blood types can be transfused to him?
  1. This clumsy chef from Home Ec class accidentally cut her finger with a machete (don’t ask me why she used a machete to cut onions) but her finger didn’t start to bleed, it was her nose that started bleeding.

If her blood type is type O+ blood, what blood type(s) can be transfused to her?

3.

  1. A 17year old female was rushed to the nurse’s office. She complained about her test scores and how her marks aren’t up to her standards. In the middle of the conversation, she said that she is feeling pain in her joints, and is experiencing a shortness in breath. She has mentioned that she has low red blood cell count and is on iron supplements.

What is your diagnosis on her joint pain along with the low red blood cell count?

  1. You take a sample of the blood, what do you expect to see in her red blood cells?
  1. What advice would you give to her about her test scores?
  1. A Rh- mother is pregnant with her first child, what Rh (+ or -) should her child be in order to have a safe birth for both the mother and the child?
  1. John got into a serious car accident by speeding during ice storm. He has O- blood and is requiring blood transfusion. What type(s) of blood can he receive?

6. April who is O- is pregnant with her second child who is O+. Her first child, Jimmy, who is type A+ transfused some of his blood into April during child birth. Now April has the Rh antibody in her blood stream. As her doctor what do you recommend in preventing the hemolytic disease of the newborn?

7. May has AB+ blood and is requiring some new blood for her disease. What blood type can she receive?

8. Ryan Gosling came into your blood clinic to identify his blood type. You saw that there was clumping only in the Anti-A serum. After asking him for an autograph and a selfie, you tell him that his blood type is …

9. Mr.Young was body checked from behind by a player that is twice as big as him. His head went head first into the boards causing his head to snap back while hitting the corner of the boards. He now shows signs of concussion and is unable to come to school.

Poor guy