Question

Cindy Johnston, 65 years of age, is schedule to have a right total knee replacement next week. She is at the pretesting clinic having the preoperative testing completed. The orders include: CBC, comprehensive metabolic panel, urinalysis, type and cross match for 2 units of PRBCs, chest x-ray, and ECG. Mrs. Johnston asks if she can donate her own blood for the procedure. (Learning Objective 5)
a. What are the advantages of autologous blood donation?
b. Which patients would not be candidates for autologous donation?

Answer 1

Answer: From Mrs Johnson's request to donate her own blood for her own surgery is an example of autologous blood donation. Therefore autologous blood donation is defined as the donation of blood by an individual, usually 3 days,before an operative procedure is carried out on the same individual.

Explanation:

A) The advantages of autologous blood transfusion includes:

- transfusion reaction would not occur since the transfused blood is an exact match.

-no risk of inadvertently transmitting infectious agent.

-blood cell production by bone marrow will surge due to the transfusion

B) patients that would not be candidates for autologous donation includes:

- patients with hypertension.

-patients with cardiac or pulmonary disease.

- Patients with Active seizure disorder.