Blood products

You are the intern asked to collect a group and hold sample from a 68-year-old man before an elective hip replacement. When you arrive the ward clerk hands you…

Pre-internship · common

A 62-year-old woman is receiving her first unit of packed red blood cells for symptomatic anaemia. Fifteen minutes after commencement her temperature rises from…

Pre-internship · common

A 45-year-old man becomes acutely unwell after receiving approximately 20 mL of an incompatible red-cell unit. He develops fever, severe flank pain, hypotension…

Pre-internship · common

A 67-year-old woman develops a temperature of 38.3°C and rigors 30 minutes after a red-cell transfusion begins. She is haemodynamically stable and has no dyspno…

Pre-internship · common