Meaning of mistransfuse | Babel Free

Definitions

To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.

Examples

“On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used .”

“Recipient or donor unit identification errors will result in an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction for one of every three packed RBC (PRBC) units mistransfused.”

“An analysis of cases in the UK during 1996-2006 where blood components had been mistransfused showed that laboratory errors were implicated in up to 34% of incidents.”

“They further demonstrated the relative safety of the 100,000 units of group O universal donor red cells given, in that all seven fatal hemolytic transfusion reactions in Vietnam occurred in patients receiving crossmatched but mistransfused blood.”

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