A Client Who Has Previously Required Blood Transfusions Is Admitted

question 38

Multiple Choice

A client who has previously required blood transfusions is admitted for another transfusion.Four hours after a unit of blood infuses,the client develops fever,chills,nausea,and headache.The nurse should suspect the client is experiencing which type of transfusion reaction?

• A)acute hemolytic
• B)allergic urticarial
• C)delayed hemolytic
• D)febrile nonhemolytic

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of how spread out numbers are in a dataset, indicating the variability or dispersion around the mean.

Box Plot

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Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a data set, reflecting the spread of values.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 25th (Q1) and 75th (Q3) percentiles in a dataset, measuring the spread of the middle 50% of the data.