Single transplant drains Swedish blood supplies
Published: 2 May 11 12:27 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/33526/20110502/
A single organ transplant operation in Gothenburg emptied blood supplies throughout southern Sweden, forcing the hospital to buy blood from Finland.
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Hospitals in Lund, Malmö, Varberg, Borås, Uddevalla, Linköping and Stockholm all offered blood to help Sahlgrenska finish the surgery, which was plagued with complications that resulted in heavy bleeding, according to Sveriges Television (SVT).
But Sahlgrenska's shopping spree wasn't enough, forcing the hospital to buy even more blood from neighbouring Finland, an extraordinarily rare measure.
The incident has now been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) by an assistant nurse who argued that operations in which patients bleed heavily but aren't at risk of dying should be stopped.
"I'm critical of the fact that a single patient could empty an entire blood bank," assistant nurse Yassin Abdullahi Abdi told SVT, who called the blood bank a "resource for everyone".
Officials at Sahlgrenska claim the hospital did nothing wrong.
"We have a national mandate to carryout transplants and thus there has to be resources available to do that," head physician Mats Tullberg told the television station.
Abdullahi Abdi nevertheless hopes that her complaint will prompt the health board to review current procedures.
"I hope there are new guidelines," she said.
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Thank God (Whichever one you want) that this crazy woman is a nurse and nothing more...how can you even put "bleed heavily" and "Arent at risk of dying" in the same sentence....
http://www.cts.usc.edu/zglossary-cellsaver.html
no risk for AID's or other "bugs" and you get your own blood back clean no matter how long the operation takes!
maybe they should have roped in the local donors to get some more !
where I live it is too small to stockpile blood so they just call up the correct people when they need it, a few weeks back some donors got out of bed during the night to donate to save a car crash (I was gonna say victim but probably perp would be better) skin!
Do you have any blood centers that collect blood and have mobile units that go out to business (set up ahead of time. We are a 600 bed public hospital and have our own blood center for the bulk of our blood but sometimes use other blood center to maintain the rarer units.
The reason we have to pay for blood is the the required testing to protect the patient from HIV, Hepatitis, and many other infectious diseases is quite costly to perform. In the US the testing is mandated and must be performed before blood may be issued to the patient. We may have plenty of the blood needed but cannot use it until all testing and processing is complete.