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Old Fri Nov 17, 2017, 07:01 PM
Naive Naive is offline
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Thank you Neil. I queried the expiry date twice and I received some silly response about the irradiation giving the blood a longer shelf life. As the blood I always receive is irradiated I knew that the nurse was making up an answer because she didn’t know.
I’ve had the blood with no ill effects (so far) but I still think it was an error and the blood shouldn’t have been given.

I’ve had my second unit of blood as well and I noticed that no one checked the expiry on the second unit. The whole thing seems a bit iffy. The haematologist says I need another transfusion before I’m discharged during the week and I’ll be taking notice what the expiry says on that or those units.

I worry that sometimes safe handling isn’t always practiced but because you need to have treatment at that facility it doesn’t pay to ask too many questions or query their procedures...you may suffer the consequence of not very happy staff. It’s a fine line between keeping safe and annoying people with too many questions.

I read that article you gave a link to and I’m 100% positive the blood wasn’t frozen because I’m plain old O pos, my only issue is the antibodies and I wasn’t in any dire medical emergency that warranted an immediate transfusion. It took around 8 or 9 hours to find suitable blood.

Carol
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