What’s on the Blood Types poster
A 7-row table: Type · Can give to · Can receive.
Red cell transfusion compatibility.
- O− — Everyone — O−
- O+ — O+, A+, B+, AB+ — O−, O+
- A− — A−, A+, AB−, AB+ — O−, A−
- A+ — A+, AB+ — O, A (both Rh)
- B− — B−, B+, AB−, AB+ — O−, B−
- AB− — AB−, AB+ — O−, A−, B−, AB−
- AB+ — AB+ only — Everyone
Rh matters most in pregnancy: an Rh-negative mother carrying an Rh-positive baby needs anti-D to prevent sensitisation.
Questions about the Blood Types poster
- What’s on the Blood Types poster?
- A 7-row table: Type · Can give to · Can receive. Red cell transfusion compatibility. O− — Everyone — O−; O+ — O+, A+, B+, AB+ — O−, O+; A− — A−, A+, AB−, AB+ — O−, A−; A+ — A+, AB+ — O, A (both Rh); B− — B−, B+, AB−, AB+ — O−, B−; AB− — AB−, AB+ — O−, A−, B−, AB−; AB+ — AB+ only — Everyone. Rh matters most in pregnancy: an Rh-negative mother carrying an Rh-positive baby needs anti-D to prevent sensitisation.
- Who is the Blood Types poster for?
- Blood Types belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning anatomy can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Blood Types poster?
- O negative gives to everyone. AB positive can receive from everyone. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Blood Types belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Blood Types?
- Blood, The Body Systems and The Cell sit alongside Blood Types in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BloodThe Body SystemsThe Cell
- Is the Blood Types poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Blood Types downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Blood Types poster print at?
- Blood Types is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Blood Types loses nothing.Printing guide
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