Subject: RE: What's on your Road ID?gearboy - 2008-09-30 5:36 AM
BTW, listing your blood type is not necessary. You'll still get typed and crossed at the hospital, or they would give you universal donor. No blood bank worth its license will trust an ID or self-reported type.
Just curious - if you needed blood and they checked your type to be "A", but your tag said "B", would they repeat the check, or just ignore your tag?
during my wife's recent stay in the hospital, whenever she received a blood transfusion it seemed the nurses were glad to check and cross reference anything available to make sure it was right before they started the pump. |