At Hospital

Chance to check

When a deliver→When a prepartion→When a blood tranfusion

Check items

The chack that the doctor repeat Name, ID(must be carefull to same family and personal name), Blood type, The product name, Serial number, The expriation date, Closs maching test results and yes or no irradiation etc….

The check is practice near the patient before begen to blood transfusion.

The set can use soon, and the set throw away when use it once time.

Ex：Platelet blood transfusion set↓

In the case of adult

While 10-15minutes since began speeds are about 1ml/min, and the after speeds are 5ml/min.

The speed is change depends on patient' condition.

A nurse observe a patient.

Before blood transfusion

They measure body tempreture, blood pressure,and pulse rate.

While blood transfusion

A nurse observe a patient because of check to sudden changes in the petient' condition while 5minutes began to blood transfusion.

After 10, 15, 20minutes when began to blood transfrusion, the petients are mesured body tempreture, blood pressure,and pulse rate again.

When a nurse notice adverse drug reaction, the nurse abort transfusion and reports to doctor about the petient's symptoms.

And, administer medicine to a petient.

After blood transfusion

After transfusion has observed to petient because there is a possibility adverse drug.

Preservation of Records

Preservation of blood products

Blood products are preserve strictly in the cool box for exclusive use with thermograph and alarm system.

• Red blood cells + Preservative solution････2～6℃
• Plasma････－20℃
• Platelect･････20～26℃

Each transfused product is stored at the above tempretures.

There have been stored blood products in the refrigerator, typeA are 4packs, typeB are 2packs, typeO are 3packs, and typeAB are 1packs.

Q＆A about blood transfussion

Is there a case of blood transfusion with a different blood type from the patient?（ex：Transfuse non-A preparations to patients with blood group A）

We haven't done that case in the last few years, but if there is an urgent need, we may do that treatment to the patient.
Compatible blood↓

Foreigners have irregular antibodies, so compatible blood depends on where they come from.

As a rule, blood products are given alone, but what if the patient's blood transfusion is inadequate?

Follow the doctor's instructions and add 2 or 3 packs of blood to the patient.

Do patients collect blood in advance for autotransfusion when a large amount of blood products are required for surgery, etc?

If surgery can cause heavy bleeding, or if there is no urgent need, draw blood from the patient with anemia in mind. Autologous blood transfusions preserve and burden is reduced on the patien.

How long can transfused products be stored?

Red blood cell products are stored for 3 weeks, plasma products for 6 months, and platelet products for 4 days.

How do you handle transfused products that have expired?

When the blood product has expired, it is requested to be disposed of by a designated company.