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Depending on how urgent the situation really is, that means how fast the patient needs blood, the lab will provide you with either group O, uncrossmatched blood units if there is no time to complete any typing test, or blood type compatible but uncrossmatched blood units if the clinical situation allows for a quick blood typing evaluation, which typically takes about 10 to 30 minutes. \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-a797bd2d-7fff-96c6-a679-c64796b65d42\">[00:01:00] \u003C\u002Fb>Whether to release units either rhesus D positive or negative depends on availability and institutional policies. However, young girls and women of childbearing age should always receive rhesus negative blood until their rhesus status is known. 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Normally, you would uncover these alloantibodies \u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-a797bd2d-7fff-96c6-a679-c64796b65d42\">[00:02:00] \u003C\u002Fb>in the antibody screen and eventually in the crossmatch; however, neither of these will be performed in this time-sensitive situation. Nevertheless, it is an urgent life-threatening situation. You don't have time to be afraid. The best you can do is to choose the most compatible unit based on the information you do have. Although there is a chance your patient could develop a reaction to one of these other blood group antigens, the benefit of saving the patient's life,\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp dir=\"ltr\">\u003Cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-a797bd2d-7fff-96c6-a679-c64796b65d42\">[00:02:30] \u003C\u002Fb>by giving the blood transfusions, will always be higher than the risk of adverse reactions due to this type of incompatibility. 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