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When adding potassium chloride to IV fluids, the fluid rate never should exceed

What is the minimum length of time RBCs must survive after infusion for the transfusion to be considered acceptable?

Which canine blood type demonstrates the most severe antigen-antibody reaction?

Which factor contributes to qualification as fresh whole blood (FWB)?

After transfusion, a patient begins vomiting and registers a high fever in an immune response to leukocyte antigens and cytokines. Which kind of transfusion reaction is this?

PRBCs can be harvested from fresh or stored canine WB by centrifuging the unit with a relative centrifugal force of what?

How soon after initial RBC storage can storage lesions begin to reduce RBC efficacy and put the patient at risk for multiple organ dysfunctions?

“Pure persuasion” means:


Petty and Cacioppo’s Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion postulates that there are two routes to persuasion:


Gass & Seiter believe that nearly all human communication is potentially persuasive, but they don’t believe the same about human behavior.