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Ten years of transfusion practitioners and better blood transfusion in Scotland

27 February 2014

Nursing Management

Art & Science

After the Department of Health’s Better Blood Transfusion recommendations (DH 2002) ten years ago, a network of 18 transfusion practitioners supported by a central...

Promoting safer blood transfusion practice in hospital

20 June 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Results from a national comparative audit of bedside transfusion practice show that patients in the UK are at risk of misidentification and poor monitoring when...

Preventing transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease

29 July 2009

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Nurses have a key role in ensuring that patients receive the right blood at the right time. This article discusses the importance of giving irradiated blood...

Blood transfusion

10 May 2000

Nursing Standard

CPD

Blood transfusion is a potentially dangerous treatment in which adverse reactions are rare but can be fatal. This article introduces recently published national...

Guidelines for administering blood and blood components

08 December 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) scheme has revealed that many patients have received incorrect blood or blood component. This article reports new national...

Developing nursing practice in platelet transfusions

12 November 2014

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The number of platelet transfusions has risen steadily over the past five years. This article addresses some of the reasons for this increase and examines current...

Deciding when to use universal blood

07 September 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

The O rhesus (RhD)-negative blood group can be transfused to any non-immunised patients. For this reason, O RhD-negative red cells, often called ‘flying squad’ blood...

Improving blood transfusion: a patient-centred approach

15 March 2005

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

More than three million blood components are transfused every year in the UK, providing life-saving and life-enhancing treatment to thousands of patients (McClelland...

Central venous access devices

12 July 2000

Nursing Standard

CPD

Central venous access devices are used in hospital and in the long term for patients who receive therapy in the community. This article explores the history and...

Safe transfusion of blood and blood components

29 August 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Nurses are integral to the blood transfusion process. This article, which forms part of Nursing Standard’s clinical skills series, outlines the role of the nurse in...

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