Amer Zeidan

Amer Zeidan: Does the same transfusion consent cover both inpatient admissions and outpatient transfusions?

Amer Zeidan, Chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Professor of Medicine at Yale University, shared a post on X:

“Do you need to obtain a new blood product transfusion consent for the same patient for every hospital admission (inpt), or does the same transfusion consent cover both inpatient admissions and outpatient (outpt) transfusions for a certain period of time (e.g one year)?”