Cross blood Matching Chart

Cross blood matching during blood transfusion

• Almost 40% of the population has O+ blood
  
• Patients with Type O blood must receive Type O blood
  
• About half of all blood ordered by hospitals in our area is Type O
  
• Type O blood is the universal blood type and is the only blood type that can be transfused to patients with other blood types
  
• Only about 7% of all people have Type O negative blood
  
• Type O negative blood is the preferred type for accident victims and babies needing exchange transfusions
  
• There is always a need for Type O donors because their blood may be transfused to a person of any blood type in an emergency

If your blood type is . . .

Type	You Can Give Blood To	You Can Receive Blood From
A+	A+ AB+	A+ A- O+ O-
O+	O+ A+ B+ AB+	O+ O-
B+	B+ AB+	B+ B- O+ O-
AB+	AB+	Everyone
A-	A+ A- AB+ AB-	A- O-
O-	Everyone	O-
B-	B+ B- AB+ AB-	B- O-
AB-	AB+ AB-	AB- A- B- O-

Out of 100 donors . . . . .

84 donors are RH+	16 donors are RH-
38 are O+	7 are O-
34 are A+	6 are A-
9 are B+	2 are B-
3 are AB+	1 is AB-

source:http://chapters.redcross.org/br/northernohio/INFO/bloodtype.html