Administration of blood products/blood transfusions/coumadin therapy!!!

[JamarAmanti]

Our Nursing 304 instructor gives us weekly "home test" to take at home, and turn in next week. These test count as 25% of our final grade, anywho...there are a few questions on it that have me stuck-

1) How long does it usually take to complete the administration of blood products, and what is the procedurs?

2) What are 4 infections sometimes caused by blood transfusions?

3) What are the the PTTs, PTs, and INR's for Coumadin?

Any insight, and/or help would be greatly appreciated!! THANKX!!!!

[Myxel67]

This is all fairly basic information. Check your text book or lecture notes. If that fails, try google.com. When you look this stuff up on your own and read about it, you tend to remember it longer.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

here is some information on these subjects:

http://www.muw.edu/nursing/iv.htm - the last half of this document has information about the procedure of blood transfusion and transfusion reactions

http://library.med.utah.edu/webpath/tutorial/bldbank/bldbank.html - tutorial on blood banking and blood transfusion. includes discussion on compatibility, crossmatching and transfusion reactions

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/pt/test.html - pt and inr

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/aptt/glance.html - ptt

[ALEXIS VALIENTE]

i think myxel is ryt!