what nurses do if a patient wants blood transfusions

[yayita]

As a nurse, do you have to assist the doctor during a blood trasfusion.?

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

It's because with repeated blood transfusions, the risk of transfusion reactions increases.

And iron overload, which is very difficult to treat and puts patients are risk for organ damage.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Sep 14 by yayita

As a nurse, do you have to assist the doctor during a blood trasfusion.?

Well...I am going to address this.

In the US a physician orders the blood to be transfused based upon patient need/labs. The MD obtains a consent form if not included on the surgical consent. The nurse or other designated person retrieves the blood from blood bank. The blood is checked by 2 nurses against the blood requisition, transfusion and the patients arm band. Vitals are taken per policy, The blood transfusion is started by the patients nurse and monitored throughout the administration that cannot infuse longer than 4 hours.

Is this what you are looking for? Nurses administer blood in the US at the bedside

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

I've had patients who donated their own blood prior to surgery who wanted it transfused back to them. So I guess that would be an instance where a patient wants a blood transfusion.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I've had patients who donated their own blood prior to surgery who wanted it transfused back to them. So I guess that would be an instance where a patient wants a blood transfusion.

But do they automatically give the blood back, or only if it's medically indicated?

I'm sure there are many instances where a patient "wants" a blood transfusion. If I'm bleeding to death, and the transfusion would save my life, I guess you could say I "want" a transfusion.

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

There is a hefty disposal charge, apparently. I had a patient who was demanding to have her blood infused, even though her H&H and hemodynamic status was fine, and thought she was being a bit unreasonable. However, after thinking about it, if I went to the trouble to donate my own blood, I wouldn't want to have to pay to destroy it either.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Can't they just donate it to the general bank? I would assume that an autologous donation would have to go through all the same testing and handling as any other donation.

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

Can't they just donate it to the general bank? I would assume that an autologous donation would have to go through all the same testing and handling as any other donation.

Good question. I am not sure about that. I will have to ask the next time I donate blood!

[macawake, MSN]

I’m always fascinated when one short sentence manages to generate several pages in response. I’ve been guilty of participating myself from time to time, nevertheless the phenomenon still amazes and amuses me somewhat.

Well, OP hasn’t been back to clarify what s/he meant by her or his question, I wish s/he would elaborate. Until she does I’m not going to overheat my gray matter trying to figure out the rationale for it

Personally I’ve never seen an MD hang blood. In my neck of the woods nurses perform

that task, and in the OR it’s the nurse anesthetist’s responsibility.

[enuf_already]

I'm always fascinated when one short sentence manages to generate several pages in response. I've been guilty of participating myself from time to time, nevertheless the phenomenon still amazes and amuses me somewhat.

Well, OP hasn't been back to clarify what s/he meant by her or his question, I wish s/he would elaborate. Until she does I'm not going to overheat my gray matter trying to figure out the rationale for it

Personally I've never seen an MD hang blood. In my neck of the woods nurses perform

that task, and in the OR it's the nurse anesthetist's responsibility.

The question/post actually changed from the original post while I was responding, thus my off topic answer about vampires. Or was it on topic at the time? One may never know.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Discussion about vampires is always off-topic. Or maybe just verboten.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

​What was the point of this post?

I had speculated that perhaps the OP was not in this country due to the interesting questions she's been asking, but Roser's post uncloaked the mystery.

[yayita]

Giving blood transfusions to whom? A vampire? Not my type ;-).

I see you just added to a patient. That information was missing.

Is there a specific situation you are referring to?

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what I want to know if nurses including lpn hang blood. ? Why i ask that? Because of religious purpose. But I got the answer from few. Thank you.

And plleeaaseee try to be kind by giving answers to anyone specially for those that dont have much of knowledge in the nursing field.