Transfusion safety by @doctoruprichard - do we consent our patients for the risks of blood transfusion? (Probably not) Best way of avoiding risk is not to transfuse, don’t give two units if you don’t need it, use tranexamic acid, IV iron. 🩺

Interesting. In some Paeds units I’ve worked in we have written consent forms for planned transfusions. For a semi-urgent (ie non resuscitation) we would phone to get consent from parents and sign later. Even for Resus we’d given then retrospectively get the form done later for future transfusions.