Blood administration

3. Vital signs should be taken within _______ minutes before the start of the transfusion.
5. When picking up blood for emergencies, you must have a minimum of the patient____ and ___.
7. For emergency uncrossmatched blood, issuing the product from the blood bank will be expedited if the ____ and ______ order is placed in EPIC.
9. A printed version of this document should be presented to transfusion service as a pick-up form, with the exception of emergency situations, massive transfusion, RhIg orders, and issuing to surgery (two words).
10. This two-person process must be completed prior to spiking the unit of blood (two words).
11. For the emergent workflow, the ________ needs to sign the EMERGENCY REQUEST FOR UNCROSSMATCHED BLOOD regardless of whether the blood is transfused.

1. The blood transfusion _______ should be checked prior to a procedure/surgery.
2. For routine transfusions using the standard workflow, it is mandatory to document the transfusion ______ with every set of vital signs.
4. Vital signs should be taken between ___ and fifteen minutes after the start of the transfusion, hourly while infusing, and at the completion of transfusion.
6. For non-emergent routine blood admnistration pathway, the crossmatch section of transfusion order will state “_________” if blood is ready for my patient.
8. The transfusion______ must be signed by the transfusionist and the witness if the electronic dual sign-off (Epic Blood Administration Module) is not utilized.