Safe practice in blood transfusion.

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If a doctor order to give 50mls of platelet to an infant and the blood bank issues 110mls. How will you administer it to make sure you don't overload the patient or give less as platelet is given by gravity?

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

There is a difference between helping and outright doing...

KRVRN said:

Well if you don't want to help with homework, don't you just ignore the question?

[BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN]

Well, in my world we would never give that amount, they are spun down. And platelets aren't ordered by the ml but by the unit. Blood on the other hand is ordered by the ml, usually 10-20ml per kilo.

And and it isn't hung by gravity as usually an infant has in a smaller bore catheter and it most likely wouldn't go by gravity. And where I work all infusions for peds have to go on an infusion or med pump.

So yes, there are many ways to skin a cat.

And the person needs to look up stuff for homework and see how kind of wrong the question is and how we figured out it was homework. And the residents I work with look stuff up before they come to rounds, they don't expect someone to hand feed them.

[KRVRN, BSN, RN]

BuckyBadgerRN said:

Op created an account here to get the answer to a homework question. As a rule, the posters here won't do homework for students, but will help them figure something out AFTER they share their thoughts or what they think so far. You just jumped right in and did the homework for the op

I did? It was a complete guess. That's why it started with "I imagine..." Especially since OP doesn't know if I'm a nurse or not.