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Ethical dilemmas Vignette 4. Lookback
1.
As the person responsible for the hospital blood bank, what would you do?
Notify the department that treated the patient, in order that they contact the patient and test her for infection
Notify the patient’s family physician
Notify the patient directly
Nothing, as a few years have passed and probably the patient was not infected
2.
If you don’t find a record that the patient was symptomatic at the time of her transfusion, would you tell the patient that she probably didn’t need the blood transfusion?
Yes
No
I am not sure
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