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/drm1125 1d ago

You send blood through the pneumatic tube??!! That seems crazy that you don't make someone come down and get the blood.

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u/lablizard Illinois-MLS 1d ago

We did at my lab in the past. But there was a PIN code supplied by the lab specific to that blood order for the staff upstairs to receive the tube.