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Whole Blood

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

Recognize whole blood as an unseparated donor collection with its own storage, labeling, and inspection requirements, and apply laboratory hard-stop checks, validated refrigeration, identity, and visual integrity, before a unit is stored, transported, or issued.

Intermediate24 min read15 sectionsBlood Bank
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Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

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Each objective below describes a transfusion-service laboratory competency, product integrity, labeling, storage, and issue practice first; clinical treatment protocols second.

  • Describe whole blood as the unseparated donor collection and explain, in general terms, why most collections are subsequently processed into individual components
  • Apply labeling, cold-chain, and visual-inspection checks the laboratory must confirm before a whole blood unit is stored, transported, or issued
  • Explain why storage in a non-validated or non-monitored refrigerator is a laboratory hard stop for a whole blood unit, independent of how urgently a patient needs blood

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