1. Name: Nathan Tisch
Date: January 6, 2013
Analysis
Table 1
Anti-A Serum Anti-B Serum Anti-Rh Serum Blood Type
Slide 1- Mrs. Smith Agglutination No Agglutination Agglutination A+
Slide 2- Mr. Jones No Agglutination Agglutination No Agglutination B-
Slide 3- Mr. Green Agglutination Agglutination Agglutination AB+
Slide 4- Ms. Brown No Agglutination No Agglutination No Agglutination O-
1) Choose one of the following patients:
a) Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, Mr. Green, Ms. Brown= Mr. Green
b) Using the information shown in Figure 1 on Blood type and the data recorded in Table 1, What
agglutinogens are present on the patient’s RBC’s? A and B
c) What ABO agglutinin(s) is/are found in the patient’s Plasma? IAIB
d) What is the patient’s blood type? AB+
e) If this patient needed a transfusion, what blood type(s) could this patient safely receive? Mr.
Green could safely receive types O, A, B, AB
f) What blood type(s) could safely receive this patient’s blood?AB
2) Below is the information representing the blood type analysis of a new patient (patient X). From the
information obtained, fill out the medical technologist report.
A: Agglutination Medical technologist’s report
B: No Agglutination ABO Type: A
Rh: Agglutination Rh Type: +
3) Compare and Contrast agglutinogens and agglutinins. In the diagram show at least 2 similarities and
2 differences.
Agglutinogens Agglutinins

2. Differences Similarities Differences
Stimulate the formation of Found in blood and protein Cause particles to congeal, or
agglutinin and antigen-related substance form a mass and is antibody-
related
4) Pretend you went with your class on a medical career field trip to a local hospital. One of the stops
on the visit was to the hospital’s blood lab. The medical technologist at this stop gave a
demonstration of how blood types are determined. Your job is to write a paragraph for the school
newspaper on the visit to the blood lab, summarizing what you’ve learned about how ABO/Rh blood
groups are determined. Write a paragraph and include the title.
What Blood Type Are You?
On the day of Frebruary 11, 2013, Destiny High School went to a medical career field trip to the local
hospital. We visited the medical center where a medical technologist informed us of a way to
determine blood type. When we returned I pulled aside five students and got answers to what they
learned through the course of the trip and got almost identical answers from each. They had
acknowledged the questions as entertaining and explained that they learned that when aggulation is
formed in a anti-A, anti-B, or anti-RhSerum it mean this will lead to the patients blood type. For
example the students told me that if anAggulation is formed within the the Rh Serum then the blood
type will be positive rather than negative. Interesting is it not? Also that the students learned that
blood groups are determined through the appearance of Aggulation. As well the students got to
watch this in person as a patient, Mr. Green, allowed the group to see his blood and the type he was
considered. As the watched the technologist put drops of anti serum into the tray, they realized an
aggulation form in the Rh, A, and B realizing that his blood was an AB+.
5) List at least 3 situations where blood typing could be used.
a) Paternity Test
b) DNA Analysis to Solve a Crime
c) Blood Transfusion
6) Define Erythroblastosis Fetalis. Erythroblastosisfetalis refers to two potentially disabling or fatal blood
disorders in infants: Rh incompatibility disease and ABO incompatibility disease. Either disease may
be apparent before birth and can cause fetal death in some cases. The disorder is caused by
incompatibility between a mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. Because of the incompatibility,
the mother's immune system may launch an immune response against the baby's red blood cells. As
a result, the baby's blood cells are destroyed, and the baby may suffer severe anemia (deficiency in
red blood cells), brain damage, or death.
a) Describe the sequence of events that lead to this condition.
The sequence that leads to the events of this disease are as follows: Causes, Symptoms,
Diagnosis, Treatment and if not treated can lead to death.
b) What might be some benefits if the medical profession developed a shot or vaccination that
could desensitize an Rh+ situation?The benefits that can come from a medical professional that
has developed a cure or vaccination would that there would be less cause for worry to the
parents so they don’t lose their child in the womb or later if not treated properly. As a result we

3. could see that if the vaccine were to work less treatment towards the disease and the fact that if
the treatment were to fail, and the vaccine worked we would have a substitute cure.
7) You are a type A eryhthorocyte placing an ad in the personals and you are seeking a compatible
mate for a long lasting transfusion. Create an ad to be submitted to the newspaper.
To whom it may concern, I am looking for someone willing to become a long lasting blood
transfusion mate. I am type Aertthorocyte and require blood to live so I can watch over my son and
daughter. I would not normally do this but I am all that the children have after their mother passed a
couple years ago. Please if you are interested contact me on by cell or by email at: (817)555-5567
or iwanttotakeyourblood@yahoo.com
8) Another important diagnostic tool used by medical technologist is determining a patient’s blood cell
count, for both red blood cells and white blood cells. When this procedure is performed, one
technique used is to take multiple samples and calculate the average. This method of multiple
sampling is a standard procedure in scientific and medical investigations. Discuss why this method is
important in blood typing. I don’t know
9) Each year thousands of people contract blood borne diseases. What could be done in a clinical
blood lab to minimize the risk of obtaining or spreading a blood borne disease? Some
things that could help minimize the risk of obtaining or spreading a blood borne disease would be to
try to get tested to see if the one person has the disease and if there is anyway to treat it so it
doesn’t spread to a child if the woman would happen to be pregnant. So clinicaly they could
produce vaccines that would help reduce the chances of babies or people spreading or obtaining a
blood borne disease.
10) In a short paragraph, identify what you think may be the next important breakthrough, milestone or
discovery in the study of blood and blood diseases and explain why. I think that the next big
breakthrough that could help in the study of blood and help in the reduction of blood diseases
would be a vaccine that would help either strengthen or help a person become immune to these
called diseases. For example if we could see a decrease in Anemia patients and help the patient’s
body become more immune to this disease. Also fight against the disease ErythroblastosisFetalis
most commonly found in unborn children that must fight against the mother’s Rh antibodies that
are reacting to the babies Rh- positive cells. This would be best to fight especially if we could help
the mother’s Rh antibodies progress and let them resist attacking the babies Rh- positive cells.