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 OR, Nursing Professional Development.
25 minutes ago, Kallie3006 said:

To any new nurses reading this PLEASE do not hang blood with D5W unless you are planning to hemolyze your PRBC's and defeat the intent of the infusion, to begin with, and do not spray WD40 on your patients with RA pain, you may be able to use it on a squeaky prosthesis though.

To be fair, you may need your WD40 for your cardiac patient portrayed by Jack Haley, especially before his, er, heart transplant that was performed somewhere over the rainbow.

On 4/19/2019 at 6:18 AM, HarleyvQuinn said:

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Hi HarleyvQuinn, how is your assignment going on?

Please show your study here.

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The next round of discussion is as follows:

Is priming the infusion line with blood a wrong practice?

Any nurses with 35 years working experience are welcome to join the discussion.

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
On 4/20/2019 at 2:39 AM, Nursing Au said:

The next round of discussion is as follows:

Is priming the infusion line with blood a wrong practice?

Any nurses with 35 years working experience are welcome to join the discussion.

Are you serious? What discussion? There is no discussion. Look it up in your textbook. Come back to us if something isn't clear to you. Even a nurse with one year of experience can help you as long as you do your part.

The original post aims to let younger members lack of experience to check the response from some members at this forum. It is not expected for some younger members to blindly follow on what some other members said at this forum, as these younger members are either lack of experience or lack of judgement in front of complex issues.

The post intends to let younger members practice independence in judgement.

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
10 minutes ago, Nursing Au said:

The original post aims to let younger members lack of experience to check the response from some members at this forum. It is not expected for some younger members to blindly follow on what some other members said at this forum, as these younger members are either lack of experience or lack of judgement in front of complex issues.

The post intends to let younger members practice independence in judgement.

This makes not a bit of sense. Inexperienced nurses have preceptors, charge nurses and coworkers. They can ask their own questions.

Our doing your homework for you doesn't help anyone develop independent judgement. You are by no means the first student who tried to rope us in, but certainly the most dogged. I'll give you that. If you would put the same effort into just reading the damn textbook we'd help you all you want.

Someone came on here once and asked us if it was possible to challenge NCLEX without going to nursing school. In case that's what you have in mind, no it isn't.

On 4/20/2019 at 4:31 AM, TriciaJ said:

This makes not a bit of sense. Inexperienced nurses have preceptors, charge nurses and coworkers. They can ask their own questions.

Our doing your homework for you doesn't help anyone develop independent judgement. You are by no means the first student who tried to rope us in, but certainly the most dogged. I'll give you that. If you would put the same effort into just reading the damn textbook we'd help you all you want.

Someone came on here once and asked us if it was possible to challenge NCLEX without going to nursing school. In case that's what you have in mind, no it isn't.

Thanks TriciaJ. Your previous participation at this forum would be a great bonus to the forum.

Did you check the response from other members at this forum?

I believe you are a great nurse. Perhaps you did some typing errors in your previous posts. It wouldn't be a concern.

I believe all of members at this forum would wish you all the best.

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

Let's begin the next round of discussion.

Is priming the infusion line with blood a wrong practice?

Specializes in Surgical, Home Infusions, HVU, PCU, Neuro.
On 4/20/2019 at 5:17 AM, Nursing Au said:

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

Let's begin the next round of discussion.

Is priming the infusion line with blood a wrong practice?

Refer to your instructors and the nurses can refer to their facilitie's policy and procedures

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

Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.

We seem to be going round and round, like chatting with a computer, computer generated responses.

Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.
11 minutes ago, TriciaJ said:

Of course. You put it in the fridge for a while, then you can place it on the IV site to prevent the formation of a hematoma.

Is that also safe to use with WD40 on the same extremity at the same time?

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