You are caring for a young child undergoing intensive chemot…
You are caring for a young child undergoing intensive chemotherapy for AML. She has expected chemotherapy-related myelosuppression, her Hgb is 6.5 g/dL and she is symptomatic with her anemia. You decide to give her a transfusion of pRBCs. You choose to irradiate the blood before transfusing it knowing it helps prevent this transfusion complication:
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You are caring for a patient presenting with concerns for bacteremia. The patients nurse informs you that she only got enough blood from their blood draw to send one test. Which of the following tests do you tell her to obtain as it is the most important?
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You are seeing a 7 year old in the ER, his dad brought him with concerns of a diffuse, non-itchy, painless rash. He has never had a rash like this before and other than a recent cold that he has recovered from he has been feeling well without sick symptoms. His exam is only significant for multiple discrete, nonblanching pinpoint (1-2 mm) red-purple macules densely covering his face, chest and back, with a few seen on his arms and legs and several 3-4 cm areas of subcutaneous purplish discoloration on his shins and knees. His labs show: WBC 7.6 with normal differential, Hct 38, platelets 12,000, smear shows giant platelets (megakaryocytes) with otherwise normal cell morphology. PT 13.6 and PTT 37.5. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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