This video highlights the key steps for completing the pre-administration bedside check of blood components. This critical check is the final opportunity to prevent transfusion of an incorrect blood component to a patient.
The resource can be played in full or paused at particular points to support training and knowledge of this final step. The video supports the British Society of Haematology (BSH, 2017) guideline for the administration of blood components, the National Blood Transfusion Committee (NBTC,2016) National Standards for the Clinical Transfusion Process and the Central Alerting System (CAS) Alert Safe Transfusion Practice – Use a bedside checklist, (Department for Health, 2017).
This video was produced through collaboration between the UK’s haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) and the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Patient Blood Management (PBM) Team.
Originally released in 2018 and updated in October 2020.
