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Which of the following is a requirement for drivers with a diabetes exemption? A) Possess a rapidly absorbable form of glucose while driving B) Self—monitor blood glucose one hour before driving and at least once every 2 hours while driving C) Plan to submit blood glucose monitoring logs every 6 months D) Maintain a Hemoglobin A1C value less than 7 - Correct Answer A. Drivers with diabetes should self monitor blood glucose before driving and every 4 hours while driving. Blood glucose monit...

Is an individual who is Du positive considered Rh positive or Rh negative when donating blood? - Correct Answer Rh (Du) positive Are Rh antigens well developed at birth? - Correct Answer yes Which 2 Rh antigens are present if red cells are called f positive? - Correct Answer ce Should a Rh negative woman who has an induced abortion at two months of pregnancy receive Rh immune globulin? - Correct Answer yes At what week of pregnancy is antenatal Rh immune globulin routinely given? - C...

Name the scientists who first identified the Rh blood group - Correct Answer Landsteiner and Weiner Name the clinical significance of the Rh blood group - Correct Answer Primary cause of HDN and HTR; After A and B it is the most signficcant RBC antigen in transfusion practice due to high immunogenicity Describe the inheritence of the Rh genes - Correct Answer inherited as co-dominant alleles; Genes so closely liked that they are inherited as a single unit Describe the genetics of the Rh...

Rh system is the second most important system clinically, what is the first - Correct Answer Abo Antibodies in Rh system are __________ occuring - Correct Answer not naturally First exposure would not result in - Correct Answer RBC destruction What does a first exposure result in - Correct Answer Ab production Rh inheritance is... - Correct Answer autosomal codominant. (If inherited it will be expressed.) Fisher-Race Model - Correct Answer based on the theory that there are 3 cl...

Rh Antigens - Correct Answer Non glycosilated protein Transmembrane polypeptide Integral part of the RBC membrane Only small loops of the Rh proteins are exposed on the surface of the red cell. Levine and Stetson - Correct Answer HTR in obstetric px An Ab was isolated from the px that reacted both at 37C and 20C with the donor's RBCs 1939 Landsteiner and Weiner - Correct Answer Discovered in 1940 that, Ab made by guinea pigs and rabbits when transfused with Rhesus monkey red cells. ...

RHD RHCE - Correct Answer 2 genes responsible for expression of Rh antigens Codominant - Correct Answer Mode of inheritance of RH genes DCE terminology - Correct Answer Fisher-Race terminology 3 closely linked genes (allels) - Correct Answer Number of genes responsible for Rh antigens according to Fisher and Race Rh-Hr terminology - Correct Answer Weiner terminology One gene - Correct Answer Number of genes responsible for Rh antigens according to Weiner Alphanumeric Terminolo...

what does Rh+ mean - Correct Answer antigen is present on RBC what does Rh- mean - Correct Answer antigen is not present on RBC what was the Rh system named after - Correct Answer the Rhesus monkey why was the Rh system named after the Rhesus monkey - Correct Answer because they were initially used in the research to make the antiserum for typing blood samples what were initially used in research to make the antiserum for typing blood samples - Correct Answer the Rhesus monkey are...

What are the five major antigens called in the Rh blood group system? Which ones are they? - Correct Answer Rh antigens, D, C, c, E, and e How many antigens total have been identified as Rh antigens? - Correct Answer 57 Which Rh antigen typing is included in routine donor and patient typing and is the most antigenic of the 5 major antigens followed by c, E, C, and e? The others are considered when antibody screening is positive. - Correct Answer D antigen Which Rh antigen pairs are anti...

why is the term Rh a kind of misnomer - Correct Answer because it is often used to describe a specific red cell antigen D, but it also the name of the entire system of related antigens constituting the Rh blood group how many antigens are in the Rh blood group - Correct Answer 50 Rh type is a classification frequently use in conjunction with ____ classification - Correct Answer ABO positive Rh is the _____ of the D antigen - Correct Answer presence negative Rh is the _____ of the D a...

Antigen Expression - Correct Answer Erythroid specific No soluble form The D antigen is encoded by... - Correct Answer RHD gene The C,c E, and e are encoded by... - Correct Answer RHCE gene RHD and RHCE are found - Correct Answer Chromosome 1 Rh complex - Correct Answer RHD RHCE Rh associated glycoprotein (RhAG) LW glycoprotein CD47 Integrin-associated protein Glycophorin B Fy5 RHCE protein and position - Correct Answer C= serine at position 103 c= proline at position 103...