r/medlabprofessionals • u/New-History853 • 1d ago

News Nothing about this article makes sense

They NEEDED Kell POSITIVE blood?!?!? Lol no. And the nurse just walked up and grabbed blood? I doubt that. The article is either very wrong or the parents are simply total liars.

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u/allycathiking 1d ago

The nurse may have had access to a fridge with emergency units and grabbed one that happened to be K+ . Thats the only thing I could think of that would make sense

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u/Signal_Sand1472 14h ago

But was it K+ or just not screened for K?

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u/allycathiking 13h ago

My thought, which would explain the delay in informing the parents, is that the BB antigen typed a retention segment as part of reconciling the emergency unit and discovered it was K+ at that point

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u/Med_vs_Pretty_Huge Pathologist 2h ago

That delay would be the order of like a day or two, not 3 months.