Blood Type Test: About This Test

blood type  In major traumas with massive blood loss, many hospitals transfuse O positive blood, even when the patient's blood type is unknown The risk of reaction is much How to find out your blood type for free One way to find out your blood type is to donate blood If you donate to community blood supplies, ask the staff if

Individuals with type A blood—without any prior exposure to incompatible blood—have preformed antibodies to the B antigen circulating in their blood plasma  If you have type AB blood with A and B antigens, you don't make anti-A or anti-B antibodies That is why people with type AB blood can receive

Takeaway The ABO system is the best known way of classifying blood types In this system, there are eight main types O positive is the most common, and AB In blood typing, antigens on the surfaces of red blood cells are also known as agglutinogens and the antibodies that react against them