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Perioperative nursing care guidelines and updated blood transfusion practices help nurses prevent or ameliorate adverse transfusion outcomes in surgical patients.
This article reviews blood transfusion practices and nursing guidelines to help perioperative nurses manage and prevent adverse transfusion outcomes in surgical patients.
Guides perioperative transfusion care to reduce adverse events; leaves open impact of new developments pending prospective validation.
A variety of health care personnel are involved in the collection, storage, and administration of the 20 million units of blood products that are transfused into millions of patients each year. This article reviews blood transfusion practices, nursing care guidelines, and new developments to help perioperative nurses prevent or ameliorate adverse transfusion outcomes in surgical patients.
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Dreger et al. (1998) studied this question. Perioperative nursing care guidelines and updated blood transfusion practices help nurses prevent or ameliorate adverse transfusion outcomes in surgical patients.
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