If a type AB patient experienced moderate and slow blood loss, but still require

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If a type AB patient experienced moderate and slow blood loss, but still required a transfusion, which procedure would most likely be administered in a hospital: a whole blood transfusion from a type B donor or a packed red cell transfusion from a type B donor? Explain your answer. If a type AB patient experienced moderate and slow blood loss, but still required a transfusion, which procedure would most likely be administered in a hospital: a whole blood transfusion from a type B donor or a packed red cell transfusion from a type B donor? Explain your answer.

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Packed red cell transfusion from type B dpnor is the apt treatment for the person who has lost blood slowly and moderately. Generally slow blood loss is the most common type of blood loss. It may happen unknowingly to the person. If a person has ulcers in the intestine, or if he has worm infestation the blood leaks into the lumen of the intestine and is pad in the stool which may not be noticed. In this slow loss of blood, the fluid portion of the blood is compensated by absorbing Extracellular fluid into blood circulation. The lost rbcs can be compensated by increased production of the rbc by bond marrow. But due to the continual loss of blood three would be iron deficiency. So packed red blood cell transfusion is enough.

Whole blood transfusion is done when the blood loss is sudden and of large volume.

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