Augb Case

As expected, with war comes extensive injuries. During WWI, it took a wounded soldier about 24 hours to travel from the battlefield to a hospital. Many times, the soldiers did not live through that excruciating 24 hours. The wounds inflicted on many soldiers led to the development of new medical techniques and improvements (iWonder 2015). The quickly rising death toll during WWI led to the creation of blood transfusion techniques. Prior to WWI, blood transfusions were nearly impossible without cross-matching blood types. An article published by Medical History argues that, “Though the technique (blood transfusions) caused several deaths, it did save dozens of other men, proving its lifesaving

The market of human blood transfusions is broken down into different uses: Elective Surgery, Emergency Surgery and Trauma. However, Hemopure seems to be suitable only for trauma cases due to its characteristics and, again, high price. To understand the reason, it is important to notice that, actually, only 10% of the 500,000 trauma victims receives RBCs “in the field” or at the site of accident, and the remaining 95% of these people does not receive transfusions until they arrive at the hospital. This delay was often cited as a major factor to the 20,000 trauma deaths. Therefore, since the expected market share for Biopure is 25% and assuming that the total blood transfusions remain stable, the potential market size for Hemopure is approximately $350,000,000. This size is based on an average price of $700 multiplied by 2,000,000 units (around 4 blood units are needed for each Trauma case).

Ed's blood count is low due to the increased destruction of RBC's. Erythropoesis cannot keep up with the destruction of RBCs, thus a blood transfusion is probably needed. This is done to allevia anemia, increase blood volume and to improve immunity against the parasites that have infected Ed's body.

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However, the acute care setting proves to be challenging due to the fact of its fast pace. If this were another floor I might have the time to touch base with the current pathophysiology a little more in depth. Acute care requires you to have a good understanding of the disease before you actually even see it. That is, you have to start preparing to treat the patient even before they get in the department. For example during my rotation in the emergency department my nurse received notice that a patient with an active gastrointestinal bleed was coming in via ambulance. She promptly prepared a room with several equipment and tests. She knew exactly which test might be performed on the patient, a blood analysis to determine if blood loss was gross, and also a blood stool sample test to determine where the bleed was located, either superficially or

But nobody ever set any parameters on what to do if the hemoglobin ranged between 7 and 10. This left the physician to decide when to start a blood transfusion. The Johns Hopkins study revealed that because of this most physicians always erred in the side of “safety” by ordering a transfusion any time the hemoglobin was at or below 10.

In a publication of the Stanford University School of Medicine, held an article entitled “Against the Flow—What’s Behind the Decline in Blood Transfusions?” The author of that article, Sarah C. P. Williams, stated: “Over the past decade, a growing body of research has revealed that in hospitals around the world, donated blood is used more often, and in larger quantities, than is needed to help patients—both in operating rooms and hospital

Lastly, in case of an emergency hemorrhagic episode science has advance to the point to decrease blood transfusions to the minimum with help of medications like:

People with severe anemia may require a blood transfusion. A person with an immune disorder may need to receive injections of antibodies (immune globulin).

Since there is a severe blood loss, a blood transfusion should be considered when life-threaten, which need a blood test to get the correct blood type of the patient first. However, due to the patient’s belief in such a case, that the patient is not competent to make an informed decision and there is no immediately contactable family or friends, the medical practitioner can treat the patient according to a professional judgment of the patient’s best interests (Legal and Regulatory Services.2005.), or discuss possible treatment options with Hospital Liaison Committee (Australian Red Cross Blood

Studies were identified by searching the Cochrane database, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Google scholar and bibliographies of relevant published articles. The primary outcome measures were the number of allogeneic blood transfusion exposures, the units transfused per patient, the postoperative haemoglobin and the mean drop in haemoglobin levels.

There are many ways in which the current blood donation policy is inadequate. From a medical perspective, there are better indicators

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Some medical conditions, such as patients requiring chemotherapy, or patients with blood diseases, may require multiple transfusions of blood and blood products. A section within the procedure specific form was developed to meet the above need known as Blood and Blood Products Transfusion Consent. This consent document is unique as it includes the possibility of consenting to multiple blood and blood product transfusions for a specific period of time. Documentation must include frequency and approximate end dates of the transfusions. When a course of transfusion needs to change due to a change in patient’s condition or a change in the treatment program, a fresh consent to the new course of treatment should be obtained and documented with the

Hematologic Systems: Reports “I have thick blood and my doctor told me I need to donate every six weeks or so”, “but I haven’t done that in a while”. Denies receiving a blood transfusion. Denies anemia. Reports bruises easily due “to my medications”. Denies lymph node swelling, exposure to radiations and denies history of blood transfusion. Educated patient on the importance of donating blood as recommended by his physician due to cardiac disease and being high risk for strokes.