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1. List three procedures required during the immediate investigation of a transfusion reaction.

2. List four diseases that can be acquired from blood transfusion.

3. What can cause nonimmune hemolysis of transfused RBCs?

4. For each of the following transfusion reactions, give the causes and symptoms:

a. allergic

b. febrile, nonhemolytic

c. volume overload

d. bacterial reactions

e. acute hemolytic

f. delayed hemolytic

g. anaphylactic

5. A group B patient has received four units of group O blood during an emergency. According to the facility's transfusion guidelines, when can this patient be given group B units again?

6. During an emergency shortage of blood, Rh-negative RBCs were transfused into an Rh-positive person of the genotype CDe/CDe. Which antibody is most likely to develop first?

7. What will an unexplained decrease in hemoglobin accompanied by mild jaundice most likely indicated in a patient transfused with RBCs 1 week ago?

8. Hemoglobinuria and excessive bleeding at the operative site are characteristic of which transfusion reaction?

9. Hives and itching are characteristic of which transfusion reaction?

10. The most severe and life-threatening transfusion reactions are due to incompatibility in which blood group system?

11. After receiving 100 ml of red cells, a patient immediately develops flushing, nervousness, fever with a temperature of 102oF, shaking, chills, and back pain. The patient's plasma hemoglobin is elevated, and hemoglobinuria is also present. What is a laboratory investigation of this adverse reaction most likely to show?

12. In what situations might patients become refractory to platelet transfusion?