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Blood Product Transfusions One Pager Summary
Type and screen - determines blood type and detects in recipient
Blood Product Transfusions ... /sx urticaria, maculopapular ... rash, pruritis, ... Blood products contain ... #diagnosis #management
Blood Transfusion Reactions

Immune Mediated:
 • Febrile Non-Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction (FNHTR): Most common immune reaction to transfusion.
/sx urticaria, maculopapular ... rash, pruritis, ... Blood products contain ... #diagnosis #management ... #hematology #reactions
Endocarditis Summary

Who?
Infectious:
• Pre-existing valvular disease
• Prosthetic valve
• Congenital heart disease
• IV substance use
• IV catheter
• Recent
Microbiology: Blood ... Generalized: • Chills ... Cerebral > Splenic, pulmonary ... • Blood cultures ... #management #cardiology
Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS)
Classified among the secondary or acquired forms of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (sHLH)

What?
A subset of
• Adult-onset Still ... Petechial or purpuric rash ... Fibrin degradation products ... Activation #Syndrome #Diagnosis ... #Management #Hematology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
Fever, cough, chills ... • Major blood ... dissemination occurs and produces ... have positive blood ... #Management #Infections