Blood transfusion and Normal saline bag.

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At this forum, there are lots of discussion about blood transfusion and normal saline bag.

Some nurses never use normal saline to prime the infusion line, as they use blood to prime the line.

Other nurses use normal saline to keep the vein open.

Certainly normal saline can be used to flush the line after blood transfusion finishes.

Could anyone please explain some other functions of normal saline bag used in blood transfusion?

Specializes in Surgical, Home Infusions, HVU, PCU, Neuro.
On 4/18/2019 at 10:32 PM, Nursing Au said:

The post aims to open discussion, improve quality of care and promote patient safety.

If you have good working experience, you are more than welcome to join the discussion.

This is a public forum, anyone is welcome to join the discussion good work experience or not

46 minutes ago, Nursing Au said:

The post aims to open discussion, improve quality of care and promote patient safety.

And yet it is doing nothing of the sort.

With more members joining the discussion, the quality of care will be improved and patient safety will also be promoted.

As Kallies said "This is a public forum, anyone is welcome to join the discussion good work experience or not", it is absolutely correct.

Either you are a student, a nurse or an instructor, all of members are welcome to join the discussion.

What discussion? Your format for “discussion” isn’t actually promoting discussion at all!

According to some clinical guidelines about blood transfusion, both priming the line with blood and priming the line with normal saline are acceptable.

In real practice, both priming skills are in use at many different hospitals.

Let's begin the discussion with the following multiple options:

1. Priming the line with normal saline is the first choice.

2. Priming the line with blood is the first choice.

3. There is no difference between priming the line with normal saline and priming the line with blood.

4. Priming the line with blood is a wrong practice.

Please choose the correct options, and discuss why you choose these options.

Specializes in Primary Care, Military.
5 hours ago, Nursing Au said:

According to some clinical guidelines about blood transfusion, both priming the line with blood and priming the line with normal saline are acceptable.

In real practice, both priming skills are in use at many different hospitals.

Let's begin the discussion with the following multiple options:

1. Priming the line with normal saline is the first choice.

2. Priming the line with blood is the first choice.

3. There is no difference between priming the line with normal saline and priming the line with blood.

4. Priming the line with blood is a wrong practice.

Please choose the correct options, and discuss why you choose these options.

Do we have to submit through SafeAssign? How many words? APA format? How many references? How old can they be? ?

Hi HarleyvQuinn, talk about your practice here. If you make mistakes in your practice, let us know, and all of members will help you improve.

Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.

I am really having trouble trying to discern your intentions here. Others have asked and I haven't seen your response on any of your threads (I apologize if you have already answered). Are you a student, nurse, pharmacist, Instructor??

The post intends to improve the quality of care and promote patient safety.

Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.
13 minutes ago, Nursing Au said:

The post intends to improve the quality of care and promote patient safety.

Yes so you have said, but community responses are dependent upon your position. Why the reluctance to say? Seems a little disingenuous.

Specializes in Adult Primary Care.

Most likely a student unable to do their homework.

Either you are a student, nurse, pharmacist or Instructor, everyone is welcome.

As Kallies said "This is a public forum, anyone is welcome to join the discussion good work experience or not", it is correct.

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