militray issues facing blood transfers/ rh-negative blood types?

Question

listen i only have about 40 something ntecards on Rh-disease and stuff. I need 120...alright? i need alot more if i dont get this info. everytime i look it up, i get the same thing everywhere...and i need it by tonight or im dead. help please

Answer 1

From a Navy and Marine Corps perspective...
Everyone is screened anually for HIV. They are also screened at least once in their military careers for blood type and Rh factor, G6PD Deficiency and Sickle Cell traites. When a sailor or Marine reports aboard a ship for the first time, their health records will be screened to ensure these screenings have been done and are well documented in their health records. The results of those screenings then go into a data bank and stored for what is refered to as "The Walking Blood Bank." Should the need arise, that individual will be called upon to asist medical in saving the life or lives of those in need. Dependent upon the size of the ship, this responsibility will fall on someone in sickbay. For the extremely larger vessels such as LPHs and aircraft carriers (CVNs), this will fall on the head of laboratory services -- ulitmately the Senior Medical Officer. On smaller craft, it is the Independent Duty Corpsman's responisbility -- who is the senior ranking person in medical and is answerable to the Commanding Officer.
For the ground pounders, all of this information is kept at the battaion level, but is of little use. In actual practice, the battalion is fragmented into smaller units of Companies, broken down further into Platoons and then into Squads and Fire Teams. By the time you get to that lowest level, the men are so far removed from the folks at Head Quarters (H & HS), it is far easier to call in for dust off (medivac) and launch them to the rear. The medical personnel at the lower levels are generally of lower rank (and education -- not to make them sound stupid, they are God sent and are generally very experienced without the benefit of academia). They may have an AMAL can or two with them -- A large metal can filled with various medical supplies, but again, generally, only have available whatever they can scrounge and carry on their backs or divide up amongst their troops -- little more than say, Motrin, Tylenol, bandages, a wire splint and a medical tag (to be written on and placed upon the man being medivaced so those in the rear will know what's been done thus far). The truly resourceful "Doc" will also find a few IV bags and set ups. IT IS up to the "Doc" to know the status and needs of every man in his outfit, including Rh factors. While there is "support" available to the "Doc," he is generally on his own and somewhat isolated. That support, is via radio and upper echelon visits to ensure he and his command are happy and have what they need. In the field, those visits when practicle, should happen about once a week, to once a month dependent upon the ablities of the "Doc," and the needs of his command immediately above him. Blood infusions and transfusions simply do not happen in the field. Although, I was known to do minor surgery once in a while as the need arose. The wildest I ever did was to perform five appendectomies -- without a surgeon present and once talked someone else through that proceedure on the radio. All patients survived...

Answer 2

i'm a RH- (A unfavourable). in case you have Rh-helpful blood, you may acquire Rh-helpful or Rh-unfavourable purple blood cellular transfusions. yet those with Rh-unfavourable blood might desire to basically get Rh-unfavourable purple blood cells, different than in emergencies.