What happens if someone was given the wrong blood from a transfusion?
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When blood transfusion is ordered, a type and crossmatch is run. There are checks and double checks along the way and receiving a wrong blood type is unlikely but occurs in about 1 in 14,000 transfusions usually due due to mislabeling and other human clerical error. Two nurses check the label on the blood units against the doctor's order and the patient's blood type. If it's labeled incorrectly, we'd have no way to know. The wrong blood type will cause different levels of reaction ranging from mild to severe/life-threatening. Mild reactions include fever, shortness of breath, pain, tachycardia, chills and hypotension. Severe reactions can result in the destruction of the transfused blood (hemolysis) which causes a release of hemoglobin that can cause acute renal failure. The immune system can be compromised. Even with the right blood type there are still risks and patients are monitored closely, especially during the first 15 minutes.
i don't think that would be good
You could die.
Your own blood's antibodies would attack the foreign object, wrong blood, which could kill the recipient.
They will die. It causes the blood to clot and thicken in their veins and they die.
For more information about blood types:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/blood_type...
if someone was given the wrong blood type his body would reject it( this sometimes happens with like types,even a persons own blood)and the person would most likely die.
I hate to be blunt and I really hope this didn't happen to someone you love but the person would die.
you become a vampire!!
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