Essential Guidelines for Blood Transfusions and Reactions

Do you fear – The Power of Blood? Have you been warned – You can’t Hurry Blood? Today we tackle all the ways Blood (and love) can go wrong. . . and how to manage it on the wards.

Too cryptic? Join Bloody Minded's own consultant haematologist Dr Alison Chandler and the rest of the Bloody Minded Crew as we cover the many and varied reactions patients can have when you try and fix that haemoglobin level on the ward. 

Timestamps

00:53 - 3-4 nerds chatting about nonsense
03:37 - Your first transfusion reaction
05:08 - What is a transfusion reaction?
5:52 - Categorising transfusion reactions
7:26 - Acute febrile reactions
17:20 - Summary of acute febrile reactions
17:45 - Acute non-febrile transfusion reactions
22:11 - Workup and management of an acute reaction
37:44 - Delayed febrile reactions
50:08 - Delayed non-febrile reactions
53:46 - Summaries

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