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The unchecked blood-type assumption that killed Jesica Santillan
A teen from Tamazula gets a donated heart at Duke - one unchecked blood-type assumption turns it into a race against an immune attack. What happens next?
The unchecked blood-type assumption that killed Jesica Santillan
In this episode, we follow the chain of decisions, procedures, and missed verifications that led to a catastrophic blood-type mismatch during a combined heart-lung transplant. We trace Jesica Santillan’s journey from Tamazula to Durham, the fundraising and UNOS listing that made surgery possible, and the procedural gaps that raised the question: how did one assumption override…
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