Blood Products
These are the two ways that blood products can be donated.
What are Whole Blood Donation and Apheresis?
What is oxygen?
This is the generally accepted Hgb below which transfusion of PRBCs is appropriate without symptoms.
What is 7?
This unfortunate event is fatal in more than 90% of cases.
What is transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease?
A common cause of this is giving blood containing IgA to a patient with IgA deficiency.
What is an (anaphylactic) allergic reaction?
These are 4 bugs that get tested for in every donor's blood.
What are Syphilis, Hep B, Hep C, HIV? Will also accept WNV, T. Cruzi, and HTCLV.
This type of tremor may be alleviated with the use of alcohol.
What is essential tremor?
This is the agent that is first line for bleeding due to von Willebrand's disease.
What is DDAVP?
This is the most common bug transmitted via blood transfusion.
This transfusion problem has been found to have significantly decreased incidence when blood from male donors is used.
What is TRALI?
Approximately this amount of plasma is removed from each unit of blood to prepare packed RBCs.
What is 250mL?
This condition is associated with dementia, ataxia of gait, and urinary incontinence.
What is NPH?
Acute sickle cell crisis was mentioned in the presentation as an indication for this blood product.
What is Packed Red Blood Cells?
Transfusing slowly and using plasma reduced products are both ways to help prevent this transfusion SNAFU.
What is TACO?
This reaction is caused by cytokines released by leukocytes during storage or to antibodies to HLA antigens on donor PMNs.
What is a febrile, nonhemolytic transfusion reaction?
What is HCTZ?
Treatment with either of these two agents (name both) is an indication for irradiated blood.
What are Fludarabine and Cladribine?
Receiving a transfusion from a relative is a risk factor for this condition.
What is transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease?
Risk factors for this transfusion mishap are being very old or very young.
What is TACO?
These are two ways of drastically reducing the chance of CMV transmission with transfusion of PRBCs (name both).
What are irradiation and leukocyte reduction?
Ginseng has these effects on platelet activity and blood glucose levels (name both).
What are platelet activity inhibition and lowering of blood glucose levels?
When a neonate's platelet count drops below this number, always transfuse platelets.
What is 20?
Immediate hemolytic transfusion reaction is caused by this type of immunoglobulin.
What is IgM?
Delayed hemolytic transfusion reaction is caused by this type of immunoglobulin.
What is IgG?