Blood Donation Flashcards
Deferral period for use of Avodart/ Durasteride?
6 months
Deferral period for pregnant women who just gave birth
Postpartum 6 weeks
Deferral period for history of gonorrhea or syphilis
1 year
Deferral period for Rubeola vaccine
Rubeola = mumps = 2 weeks
Rubella = German measles = 1 month (along with chicken pox vaccine)
Deferral period for suspected IV drug user? Visible skin puncture marks upon examination
Indefinite
- also any other diseases concerning blood, apart from Hepatitis B/C,CJD,HIV,HTLV
Dimensions of scrub site for venipuncture in blood donation, what gauge needle is used?
4 cm (1.5 cm) use 16G
How long should you scrub the venipuncture site?
30 seconds
Disadvantage for Blood donation that occurs more than 8 minutes
Cannot prepare for PLATELETS, FFP, CRYOPRECIPITATE
Shipping blood units, _____ temp must be maintained
1-10 degC
Deferral for a drunk person who wants to donate blood
24 hrs
What is the ____SG of Copper sulfate - Gravimetric method that equals to 12.5 g/dL Hb which is an acceptable range to donate blood
1.053
Enumerate what conditions a DONOR MUST NOT HAVE in order to donate blood
- No alcohol consumption 24 hr
- No cough, cold, etc. (good health)
- No rabies treatment in past year
- Not taking antibiotics
- Not pregnant, breastfeeding, on period
- Not treated for malaria in past 3 months
- No dental treatment
- No immunization in past month
- No active disease (TB, diabetes, High BP, etc)
- Not aspirin in last 72 hrs
BP is 190/100, what happens to the donor next?
Assessed by physician
Acceptable pulse range
50 or 60 - 100
Acceptable systolic and diastolic blood pressure range
Systolic: 90 - 160/180
Diastolic: 60-100
Deferral for MAJOR SURGERY?
6 months
Deferral for MINOR surgery?
3 months
Deferral period after tooth extraction
3 days
Chronic renal or liver failure is deferred for ______
Permanent
Endocrine disease such as diabetes and Hypertension is deferred for
Permanent
Donor should fast before blood donation?
T/ F
False. They should eat a meal! AVOID FATTY FOOD
Following a successful donation, the RMT should observe the donor twice, during ____ & ____
- 8-10 minutes on donor chair
2. 10 minutes while donor is getting refreshments
SG of RBC
1.08-1.09
SG of PLASMA
1.02-1.03
SG of PLATELET
1.03-1.04
You observe donor is twitching/ muscle spasm. The donor is
Diagnosis: _________
Action:_______
Hyperventilation- initial signs
Talk to donor, give paper bag
Raising donor leg, applying cold compress, giving white flower is an action done when the donor is _________
Fainting
What action must be done to a donor who is experiencing nausea and vomiting
Turn head to side, provide basin
If donor has hematoma, you apply pressure for ______ minutes and apply ice for ______ minutes
Pressure for 7-10 min
Ice for 5 min
90% of post-transfusion hepatitis is due to
Non-A
Non-B
Note: majority by Hepa C
Testing for Anti-HIV 1/2
Screening test:_____
Confirmatory:_____
Screening = ELISA Confirm = WESTERN BLOT
Screening for anti-HTLV 1/2
EIA
Note: confirmatory is NAT,Western blot
Spirochetes cannot thrive in the blood bank refrigerator (1-6 degC) when stored for how many hours?
72 hrs
FTA-ABS is _____ type of test for _______
Confirmatory for syphilis
Note: screening is VDRL or RPR
For autologous donation, the final phlebotomy must be at least how many hours before scheduled surgery?
72 hrs
Note: single unit removed each time, 3-day interval
Most common ANTICOAGULANT used in APHERESIS donations
ACD
What blood apheresis component donation must not exceed 2x/wk and >24 times a year
PLT apheresis
What is administered that acts as RBC sedimenting agent which increases yield of granulocyte separation
HES
G-CSF is administered to ______ (during leukapheresis)
Increase harvest of granulocytes
Deferral period for 2 unit of pRBC
16 weeks
Citrate toxicity is an adverse effect of ______
Apheresis
