Transfusion Medicine Flashcards
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Tattoos and blood donation
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Tattoos w/in 1 month is a contraindication to blood donation
Depends on the state and tattoo parlor.
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Typical transfusion infectious disease screening
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Hypocalcemic symptoms following multiple transfusions
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Citrate toxicity. Citrate is a calcium chelator!!!
You can help prevent this by slow transfusion, giving the liver time to metabolize citrate.
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Serum antibodies directed against donor HLA antigens have been associated with. . .
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. . . febrile non-hemolytic transfusion reaction
the antibodies may bind to HLA antigens on residual donor leukocytes in blood products and possibly stimulate the release of inflammatory cytokines
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