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Apheresis plasma return failure and swelling during double red blood cell donation procedure, what does this mean?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Vein perforation: The message is just the machine reporting it could not return the plasma (=failure). The swelling most likely means the needle unknowingly punctured the back wall of the vein--so drawing was OK, but return allowed it to leak out and make a bruise (that might be light in color since the RBCs were removed). Local warm compresses should help resolve it quicker.

Answered 9/28/2016

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