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Through this line, you receive healthy blood. The procedure usually takes 1 to 4 hours. The time depends on how much blood you need and what part of the blood you receive. During the blood transfusion, a nurse carefully watches you, especially for the first 15 minutes. This is when allergic reactions are most likely to occur. The nurse continues to watch you during the rest of the procedure as well.
The protocol at my hospital is 120ml/hr for the first 15, then run over 4 hours which would be fine, if I knew how many mls are in a unit of blood, but it never has mls on the bag and everyone that I've asked has said they just kind of leave it at 120.lus, we are not allowed to run the blood longer than 4 hours because then its no longer good. So lets say you miscalculated your rate and still had some blood in the bag if it had been 4 hours you'd have to toss it. I usually started blood at 110ml/hr and typically ran it at 125ml.