Transfusion of the Wrong Blood Type Can Cause _______

question 34

Multiple Choice

Transfusion of the wrong blood type can cause _______.

• A) recipient antibody activation of the complement cascade to attack the RBCs
• B) fever and anemia
• C) systemic shock and kidney failure
• D) massive hemolysis of the donor RBCs
• E) All of the choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing which the test statistic must exceed in order to reject the null hypothesis.

Chi-Square Statistic

Statistic that tests the difference between the distribution of observed frequencies and expected frequencies.

Expected Frequencies

The theoretical counts of occurrences across different categories or within bins that one would expect if the data followed a specific statistical distribution.