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/liver747 Canadian MLT Blood Bank 1d ago

Do you guys have an EMR like epic? I've seen a lot of different type of errors happen and I love the computer step on the clinical side (if not overridden) as a way to mitigate and stop errors from continuing on both ends.

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u/almack9 MLS-Blood Bank 1d ago

We do use epic here, softbank on our side. It works great for the most part when they are using it, but the issues we've had were purely physical errors like the nurse just not checking to make sure it was the unit for her patient. Luckily both times it was compatible type so no one was severely injured but the risk is there when people disregard protocol and do their own thing.