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Post by Chantal on Jul 14, 2009 22:48:51 GMT -5
I saw something on Royal Pains the other day--crude testing for blood types by smeaing blood drops on a silver platter and looking to see what does and doesn't coagulate. Does this actually work, so that we could have blood typing on Pern? I remember doing something similar in biology class, but we had microscopes available.
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Post by Hope on Jul 15, 2009 19:54:41 GMT -5
My vote is yes, but probably on in the Weyrs and Healing Halls. It wouldn't be useful enough anywhere else; not like you can do surgery, let alone a transfusion, in a cothold. (Quick and dirty amputation, probably...nothing more than that.) They have crude microscopes on Pern, after all!
Of course, this would only be ABO and maybe Rh factors...nothing fancy. As a general rule, after the first transfusion, each one gets riskier.
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