It could all be down to your blood type

When Christopher was wheeled into the emergency room, it was clear he had lost a massive amount of blood. And the young medic on duty that day asked for a blood bag. The man on the gurney needed a blood transfusion. But as the fresh blood made its way through the man’s veins, the monitors began beeping in earnest. He was going into shock, and would later die. The medic would later learn that they gave the poor man the wrong blood type.

The upside to this scenario is that Christopher is a TV actor and that was a scene from an episode of the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. In the real world, they will make sure to know your blood type before they transfuse. But if it were to really happen, your body’s immune system would go into attack mode, attacking the donated blood cells. The medics call it a haemolytic transfusion reaction. And your kidneys could fail in the process, and you would get really sick. And if nothing was done quickly to remedy the situation, you would go into shock and die. What a way to go!