Wednesday, April 3, 2019

When Hematoma happens...

This is what happens when you don't hit the vein of your patient. This is the first time I've got my arms swollen as I donated platelets via apheresis.

I applied cold compress on the swollen area for 2 days and hot compress for the succeeding days.

I should have requested to have the needle transferred to the other arm but I chose to tolerate the pain instead. It's excruciating by the time the machine returned my red cells. Well, this may be a lesson for our fellow phlebotomists out there to do aftercare for their donors to avoid these mishaps.

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