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A member asked:
The blood of choic for an exchange transfusion of an abo hdn in a b-postive baby.. is it o or b postive packed or whole blood..?
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Your doc knows: Usually it's reconstituted packed rbc with fresh frozen plasma, o neg, but it may be a whole blood as well (depends what is available, reconstitution of PRBC takes time).
Answered 6/10/2014
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