Objective: Mr. Green was in a bad car crash and was taken to the hospital. When he arrived at the hospital it was discovered that Mr. Green was anemic and had low blood and on top of that he lost a lot of blood in the car crash. Mr. Green …show more content…
If a person receives the wrong type of blood a lot of bad things will take place such as their erythrocytes will begin to tear down, and agglutination will take place, which is when red blood cells, bacteria, and other cells start clumping together because of the presence of an antibody. Therefore, knowing a person’s blood type would prevent these types of things from happening. An agglutination reaction can be reversed by mixing the sample blood type with a reagent group and once this is done is will show any signs of Anti-A or Anti-B in the sample. Once this is done you can compare your first sample to the agglutination