[Expert Solution]: An ambulance emergency response team notifies…

An ambulance emergency response team notifies an emergency room (ER) that they are 4 minutes away, with two females, ages 31 and 32, and a 32-year-old male, who have just been in an accident and have life-threatening injuries. They request a flight team to pick the patients up from the ER and take them to the nearest level 1 trauma center immediately. They also ask that a code response team be ready with as many units of blood as possible. The physician on staff orders all O negative units to be taken to the ER STAT. The hospital has only 3 O negative units on hand, but they have 15 0 positive units, all of which are taken to the ER.