Blood group and survival after injuries

In emergency wards and traumatology, surgeons do their best to save the lives of each patient. But in some cases, it turns out that the patient's blood group itself can tilt the pledge of success against them. Unexpectedly, right? A new study, which analyzed the incidence of mortality among a group of 900 patients who were admitted to a Japanese emergency clinic with severe traumas, found that the blood group could be an important risk factor. One that effectively changes the fate of a whole class of patients.

" Blood loss is the leading cause of death in patients with severe trauma, and we wanted to check our hypothesis," the study team said. They found that patients with a zero blood group who comprised 32% of the study participants had a dramatically higher chance of resting due to their injuries compared to patients in the other blood groups. The mortality among these patients was 28%, which was a three-fold higher percentage of the mortality rate in patients with non-zero blood groups.

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