Red Stuff
The three blood groups in humans.
What are A, B and O?
The correct colour sample tube for crossmatching.
What is a pink topped blood bottle?
A serious, potentially fatal allergic reaction and medical emergency that is rapid in onset and requires immediate medical attention.
What is Anaphylaxis?
The hormone responsible for the fight or flight response.
What is adrenaline?
The universal donor.
What is type O- blood?
The procedure to exclude incompatibility between donor red cells and the patient’s plasma.
What is crossmatching?
24 hours.
How much prior to a transfusion should a crossmatch be sent?
Injected directly into muscle.
How is emergency adrenaline commonly administered?
The universal recipient.
What is type AB+ blood?
It prevents coagulation of blood in the sample tube.
What is EDTA?
Pruritus.
What is a common transfusion reaction symptom?
An alternative name for Adrenaline.
What is Epinephrine?
A yellowish liquid in your blood that carries platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells around the body.
What is plasma?
The four points of patient identification required on a crossmatch sample.
What are: surname, first name, DOB and hospital/NHS Number?
2-3 hours.
What is the typical transfusion time for a unit of packed red cells?
Three major symptoms that can occur during an anaphylactic reaction.
What are urticaria, dyspnoea and angioedema?
500ml
What is the volume of 1 unit of whole blood?
7 days.
What is the validity of a crossmatch result once it has been taken?
A feeling of impending doom.
What is a symptom of a transfusion reaction?
The ultimate consequence of a severe anaphylactic reaction.
What is death?