mistransfuse

present singular third person mistransfuses · participle present mistransfusing · participle past mistransfused · past mistransfused

1. To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.

   On another occasion a patient was similarly mistransfused at another hospital where these controls had not been used .

   1956, M.H. King, “Blood Transfusion in the Station Hospital”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 102, page 9

   3 more examples

   Recipient or donor unit identification errors will result in an acute hemolytic transfusion reaction for one of every three packed RBC (PRBC) units mistransfused.

   2011, Paul G Barash, Bruce F Cullen, Robert K Stoelting, Clinical Anesthesia

   An analysis of cases in the UK during 1996-2006 where blood components had been mistransfused showed that laboratory errors were implicated in up to 34% of incidents.

   2013, Michael F. Murphy, Derwood H. Pamphilon, Practical Transfusion Medicine

   They further demonstrated the relative safety of the 100,000 units of group O universal donor red cells given, in that all seven fatal hemolytic transfusion reactions in Vietnam occurred in patients receiving crossmatched but mistransfused blood.

   2016, Toby L. Simon, Jeffrey McCullough, Edward L. Snyder, Rossi's Principles of Transfusion Medicine