28th May 2023

A 21-year-old man has been admitted to the respiratory ward with a veno-occlusive crisis from his sickle cell disease

A 21-year-old man has been admitted to the respiratory ward with a veno-occlusive crisis from his sickle cell disease, triggered by COVID-19 infection. He is homozygous HbSS with a HbSS % of 19%. He currently has no oxygen requirement and is being managed with his personalised pain plan. On day 3 of admission his haemoglobin has drifted from 82 g/L on admission to 67g/L and he receives one unit of red cells. What best describes this type of transfusion?

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