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The neonatal intensive care unit has requested ffp stat for a neonate. no blood specimen is available for typing. what blood type plasma would you thaw

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The best option is to go for the one with AB blood type. Also, with plasma, the RhD status is not really important. So it is not a must that it be AB positive or negative. The reason being that, since the donors have AB antigens on their RBCs, they will not have any anti A or anti B antibodies in their plasma. Thus their plasma is neutral.