Well, I was at a bit of a loose end, so
I sparked up the BTLP-TACT thingy. It gave me one case – a seventy-eight
year-old chap under the medical people who had coffee ground vomiting who
needed group and save.
He grouped as A Rh(D) Positive with a
negative antibody screen.
I got the green light so, flushed with
success I had another go. This time it presented me with one case – a ninety-seven
year-old chap needing two units of cryo for vitamin K deficiency.
The control well was positive, so the
entire group was invalidated. Fortunately for my nerves the antibody screen was
negative.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/vitamin-k-deficiency
implies cryo is indicated in cases of vitamin K deficiency, so I issued two
units of AB cryo.
I got the thumbs down… Apparently cryo
isn’t indicated in cases of vitamin K deficiency.
My mistake… now I’ve had the thumbs-down
I 've realised that I was thinking of Factor V.
Mind you, I have to wonder what the nice
people at Science Direct were thinking of.
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