Addressing Patient Concerns with Blood Transfusion from Donors Vaccinated Against COVID-19: A Clinician Primer

Katherine T. Forkin; Nicole R. Guinn; Matthew A. Warner; Anil K. Panigrahi

doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000004913

Addressing Patient Concerns with Blood Transfusion from Donors Vaccinated Against COVID-19: A Clinician Primer

Katherine T. Forkin, Nicole R. Guinn, Matthew A. Warner, Anil K. Panigrahi

Anesthesiology

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Patient concerns over the safety of the blood supply because of potential COVID-19 vaccination status of donors is an increasingly encountered clinical dilemma. Requests to avoid blood products from donors vaccinated against COVID-19 present a number of challenges given that it is not possible in our current blood banking infrastructure to distinguish units of blood that have been received from donors vaccinated or not vaccinated against COVID-19. Collaborative, nonhurried, and nonjudgmental conversations using a shared decision-making framework are paramount when working through this concern with patients in the perioperative period. Policy development should be implemented at the institutional level to provide consistent guidance to clinicians, including what options are available for a particular patient.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1020-1025
Number of pages	6
Journal	Anesthesiology
Volume	140
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000004913
State	Published - May 1 2024

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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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