A 71-year old man is admitted to the hospital with complaints of severe fatigue, shortness of breath, pounding heart, and numbness in his fingers. He first noticed the symptoms when setting up his lake shelter for ice fishing as he does every year. Although he is mostly annoyed, his wife was concerned and made him go to the doctor. An automated CBC performed at the doctor’s office shows hemoglobin of 6.8 g/dL and hematocrit of 22.5%. His doctor has ordered a bone marrow biopsy, a type and crossmatch for 2 units of packed RBCs and a DAT test. In the lab, the technologist rejected the sample due to clotting and requested a recollect. The testing below was performed on the second sample received in the blood bank. What is a likely explanation for the results below:

TRALI and TACO  are differentiated by:

A cord blood sample on a newborn has been sent to the laboratory for testing. All of the following tests are routinely performed on the cord blood sample EXCEPT: 

Fever is a common symptom associated with which types of transfusion reactions?

An IgM antibody showed agglutination at both 4C and 30C, and was considered to display this type of reactivity:

Write the ASL gloss of these four sentences/questions. 1. I went to Paris last week.   2. I will take my sister to her flute lesson tomorrow.    3. When are you going on vacation next year?   4. How are you?

Maintaining continuous eye contact in ASL, without ever looking away, is considered rude and should be limited.

Classifiers are specific handshapes used to represent action verbs in ASL.

When giving identification numbers, the palm faces inward for the numbers 1-5, as opposed to cardinal numbers where the palm faces outward. 

A person’s name sign may change throughout their life if the situation prompts it.