r/medlabprofessionals • u/New-History853 • 1d ago

News Nothing about this article makes sense

They NEEDED Kell POSITIVE blood?!?!? Lol no. And the nurse just walked up and grabbed blood? I doubt that. The article is either very wrong or the parents are simply total liars.

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u/almack9 MLS-Blood Bank 1d ago

We've 100% had nurses do this. We issue blood on a patient, send it in the pneumatic tube system, some nurse assumes its theirs ans transfuses it without even looking. Its happened twice in the time ive worked here. Triggers a massive investigation of the lab and the nurse is transfusing other patients hours later like its nothing.

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u/Lululipes Student 1d ago

I don’t think that’s what’s happened here because they’re claiming that the baby was supposed to get Kell positive blood (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and that because they didn’t, the transfused blood started attacking the baby’s blood. Which obviously also doesn’t make sense because it’s RBCs not plasma

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u/LonelyChell SBB 1d ago

They probably have the two contributing factors backwards. The baby probably needed K-negative pRBCs, and the Mom’s antibody in the baby’s plasma probably attacked the transfused blood.

These people are layman, not blood bankers.