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What do you need to do to gain Consent for Blood Transfusion?
Dr Shubha Allard
Consultant Haematologist Barts Health NHS Trust and NHS Blood and Transplant
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• General legal & ethical principle
• valid consent should be obtained from a patient before they are treated
Consent for Blood Transfusion British Committee for Standards in Haematology NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Handbook of Transfusion Medicine
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2010: Valid consent for blood transfusion should be obtained and documented in the patient’s clinical record
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What entails valid consent for Blood Transfusion?
1. Informing patient of indication for transfusion 2. Explaining risks and benefits 3. Discussing alternatives to transfusion 4. Obtaining a signature from the patient 5. All of the above 6. Don’t know
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Key issues to be discussed: Indication for transfusion Benefits of Transfusion Risks of Transfusion Possible alternatives to transfusion Provide written information Does the patient have any questions Documentation of discussion in patient notes
Better Blood Transfusion Toolkit www.transfusionguidelines.org
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Does your hospital have a policy stating that valid consent should be obtained for
transfusion?
• 1. Yes • 2. No • 3. Don’t know
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Which patients should be consented for transfusion?
• General principles remain the same • Information should be provided whether the
patient is a child, adult or unconscious patient, and whether it is an urgent or routine transfusion
• However differences in process
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How can we implement consent for transfusion?
• Hospital Transfusion Teams
• Engagement key clinical users – Discipline specific – Patient Blood Management Groups – Agreed consensus policy
• Role of Consultant Lead for Transfusion
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Training
• Who needs to be trained?
• Who does the training?
• And how?
• Burden of training often falls on Transfusion Practitioners – Cascade training, Training within teams – elearning
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LearnBloodTransfusion -Consent
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www.blood.co.uk
Patient Information www.hospital.blood.co.uk
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Estimate propn of patients within your hospital given an information leaflet prior
to an elective transfusion
• <10% • 10-30% • 31-60% • 61-90% • >90% • Don’t know
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Patient information and consent not much data or published research
• Court E et al Trans Med 2011 • 164 patients
– 59% said they received explanation around needing a transfusion – only 27 % aware of an information leaflet
• Davis R et al Trans Med 2012 • 110 patients
– 61 recalled giving consent, 22 would have liked more information • 123 doctors, nurses & midwives
– 83 felt that patients not given sufficient information about transfusion
• Friedman M et al Am J Clin Pathol. 2012 • Informed consent for blood transfusion: what do medicine residents tell?
What do patients understand?
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National Comparative Audit of Patient Consent
Planned start Jan 2014 Consent Standard Documentation in notes –reason for Tx, discussion with patient Consideration potential risks/ benefits, alternatives • Organisational questionnaire • Patient data for transfusion episode • Patient questionnaire • Staff knowledge and awareness
• Excluding emergency cases • Pilot completed autumn 2013
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25y male road traffic accident fractured femur needs surgery
• Which of the following statements do you agree with?
• 1. Consider if patient able to give consent to transfusion prior to surgery
• 2. Emergency surgery should not be delayed pending patient information and consent for Tx
• 3. Retrospective information should be given if consent not obtained prior to Tx
• 4. All of the above
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Patient information and consent for transfusion is an
essential component of Patient Blood Management
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