Determine how many units you would need to screen

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John has a hemoglobin of 6.0 g/dL and his physician has sent a blood type and screen to the blood bank for processing and has also ordered 4 units of blood. Following processing, John's blood type is B positive with a positive antibody screen. Following antibody identification, John has 2 antibodies, Anti-Jka and Anti-S. The antigens have the following frequency in the population: Jka+ = 77% and S+ = 55%. Determine how many units you would need to screen in the blood bank to find 4 antigen-negative units for John.

Do you think that the blood bank would be able to find 4 units negative for Jka and S in their inventory?

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