Development of an automatic electronic system to human blood typing.
Blood typing has a vital contribution to the success of life-saving procedures, such as blood transfusions, and it can be critical, especially in emergency situations. For that, in this paper the main principles to the development of a miniaturized, low cost, portable and automatic system to human blood typing, in emergency situations, are presented. In a previous study, the authors validated a general experimental protocol to be applied in the automatic system. Now, the implementation of a specific light source system by using standard Light Emission Diodes (LEDs) was studied. Moreover, the specification of all electronic components to be used in the prototype device was performed.
University of Minho, Portugal. a52567@alunos.uminho.pt
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D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching / Q000379:methods*; D004581:Electronics / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans