Trauma Blood Transfusion

[pointhope]

Anyone out there ever had the need to give multiple units in an emergency situation where the time for each unit to infuse was less than 15 minutes. I need to know where to find written rules for transfusions in emergent situations. Any ideas?

[Sally_ICURN]

Originally posted by Liann

Thanks also for the consideration for us med techs in the BB. We appreciate a kind word now and then. We work short staffed and often get no break or lunch.....and yet I love my job!!

You're welcome!! Been there done that! Was a med tech (chemistry/hematology) for 8 years before becoming an RN!

~Sally

[parklandtrauma]

approx 35 units prbcs and about 7 ffp via level one infuser a 9 french chordis and a 14 gauge AC piv in about 35 minutes. blunt trauma with major vascular injury to both thoracic and abd. that is just what i infused. i had to leave early and let the anesthesiologists finish final count over 80 blood products in under two hours

[deespoohbear]

originally posted by montroyal

four units of blood in twenty minutes thru a 32 french foley which was placed thru a stab wound in the left ventricle of a patient.

cool!! i bet that was a sight to see!!

[OC_An Khe]

Using a three way stop cock and 60cc syringe you can get a unit of wb into a patient in less than a minute, providing you have large bore IV access. Trick I learned while working in an ER in Vietnam.

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

WOW!