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Patient Identification for Transfusion

This Medical Laboratory Science lesson in Blood Bank supports laboratory science learning and laboratory interpretation for medical laboratory students and professionals.

Trace the identity chain that must hold unbroken from specimen collection through testing to issue and bedside administration, because a single identity break anywhere in that chain, not just at the bedside, is how ABO-incompatible transfusions happen.

Intermediate26 min read15 sectionsBlood Bank
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Learning Objectives

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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

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Each objective below describes a transfusion-service laboratory competency, protecting identity, clarifying orders, issuing the right product safely, and supporting monitoring interfaces.

  • Describe the identity-verification checkpoints required at specimen collection, specimen receipt, testing, and issue, and explain why each one exists independently of the others
  • Explain why a two-identifier check (and, where used, a second independent collector/verifier) exists specifically for pretransfusion specimens rather than routine laboratory specimens
  • Recognize the laboratory's required response when an identity discrepancy is discovered at any point in the chain, including specimens already in testing

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