Leaderboard

In emergencies, we always accept verbal orders for transfusion. These should be followed up by a request documented in our electronic medical record, but that's after the fact. If you have a paper system, then the followup order is documented that way. There is a regulatory/accreditation requirement, which I consider bureaucratic, obstructive and useless, that these emergency requests require a signed release from the ordering practitioner, if the transfusion is not fully tested for the recipient.