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mistransfuse en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + transfuse.

Meanings

1. To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.
   • Recipient or donor unit identification errors will result in an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction for one of every three packed RBC (PRBC) units mistransfused. 2011, Paul G Barash, Bruce F Cullen, Robert K Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia:
   • On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used . 1956, M.H. King, “Blood Transfusion in the Station Hospital”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 102, page 9:
   • They further demonstrated the relative safety of the 100,000 units of group O universal donor red cells given, in that all seven fatal hemolytic transfusion reactions in Vietnam occurred in patients receiving crossmatched but mistransfused blood. 2016, Toby L. Simon, Jeffrey McCullough, Edward L. Snyder, Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine:
   • An analysis of cases in the UK during 1996-2006 where blood components had been mistransfused showed that laboratory errors were implicated in up to 34% of incidents. 2013, Michael F. Murphy, Derwood H. Pamphilon, Practical Transfusion Medicine:

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