Babies who need transfusions often require O negative blood which is threatened by supply shortage
Newborns, especially those born prematurely, could be particularly affected if a supply chain shortage reduces availability of donated type O negative blood.
Traumatic injury is usually the first thing that people think about when the possibility of a blood shortage appears on the horizon. While car accidents and other kinds of sudden injury definitely do create a need for O negative in situations where a person’s native type is not known, or there simply is not enough time to find it out, that’s not the whole picture.Dr.
This means that one could give a newborn a transfusion that perfectly matches the blood type they were born with but mom’s antibodies, created for a different blood type, can end up marking those cells as invaders that should be destroyed. The never-ending need for blood is in literal motion inside Rady’s neonatal intensive care unit where some newborns are undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, a process that uses a machine outside the body to remove carbon dioxide and add oxygen when a young child’s lungs aren’t yet up to doing the job on their own.
“We’re checking every six hours, and we also have continuous monitoring of what the red blood cell hemoglobin levels are, and that will give us an indication of if we need to transfuse blood sooner,” Carroll said.
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