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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?
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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.
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.
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