The hospital and clinic · Departments

The blood bank

Donors and bags, five screening tests, matching blood for each request, cross-match, issue and the bedside check.

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1. In Blood bank record donors and bags; a bag is used only once HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and malaria are all negative.
2. The doctor asks for blood from the stay; only bags the patient can receive are offered, their own group first.
3. Cross-match and issue — never uncross-matched except in an emergency, with the reason.
4. At the bedside a nurse and a second person check the bag and start; a reaction tells everybody at once.

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