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Blood Product Transfusions One Pager Summary
Type and screen - determines blood type and detects in recipient
Blood Product Transfusions ... Transfusion Thresholds ... Transfusion Reaction ... Transfusion Reaction ... High mortality.
Causes of False Elevation and Reduction in HbA1c

== False Elevation ==
Decreased RBC turnover 
• Iron, B-12,
Causes of False ... Elevation == Decreased ... Hypertriglyceridemia • Uremia High ... turnover • Acute blood ... loss • Hemolytic
Blood Transfusion Reactions

Immune Mediated:
 • Febrile Non-Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction (FNHTR): Most common immune reaction to transfusion.
Blood Transfusion ... Transfusion Reaction ... Transfusion Reaction ... Transfusion Reaction ... High mortality.
Hyperkalemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

PseudoHyperkalemia:
 • Lab error
 • Traumatic venipuncture
 • Hemolysis, thrombocytosis, leukocytosis
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phlebotomy High ... Crush injury • Blood ... reactions Common ... Blood transfusion ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Hyperkalemia - Differential Diagnosis Framework

PseudoHyperkalemia:
 • Lab error
 • Traumatic venipuncture
 • Hemolysis, thrombocytosis, leukocytosis
 •
phlebotomy High ... Crush injury • Blood ... reactions Common ... Blood transfusion ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Causes of HyperKalemia - Differential Diagnosis
Increased extracellular K+:
 • Tissue injury
 • Hemolysis
 • Rhabdomyolysis
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Tissue injury • Hemolysis ... glycosides • High ... dietary intake • Blood ... transfusion • ... of injection Decreased
Chattering on ECMO
What is chattering? If you look closely at this video clip, the tubing is
pressure (which is high ... hypoxemia due to decreased ... potentially injure red blood ... cells and cause ... hemolysis.
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Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the knee-jerk reaction ... extraction is so high ... treat the primary cause ... little coronary blood ... foamed #algorithm #criticalcare
Perhaps quite too often, the knee-jerk reaction to an elevated Troponin is to call our friends
the knee-jerk reaction ... extraction is so high ... treat the primary cause ... little coronary blood ... management #clinical #criticalcare