Complications of blood transfusion are infrequent, but can be hazardous to life. Since 2005 its legal requirement that all the serious adverse effects accord due to safety or quality of blood should be reported. Most reported complications are due to mismatched blood products and are avoidable through clinical vigilance. This article describes the clinical manifestations of the Blood Transfusion.
Early identification of symptoms is implicative of a transfusion reaction and efficient reporting to the blood bank are essential. Basically, symptoms are chills, rigor, fever, dyspnea, light-headedness, urticaria, itching, and flank pain. If these symptoms (other than localized urticaria and itching) occur, the transfusion is immediately stopped immediately and the IV line kept open with normal saline. The remainder of the blood product and clotted and anticoagulated samples of the patient’s…
