mistransfuse

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ transfuse

Verb

mistransfuse (third-person singular simple present mistransfuses, present participle mistransfusing, simple past and past participle mistransfused)

1. To transfuse the wrong blood to a patient or to tranfuse the wrong patient.
   • 1956, M.H. King, “Blood Transfusion in the Station Hospital”, in Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volume 102, page 9:

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

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

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

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

     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.

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