One lesson learned from the debriefings was that
there were often two reasons for delay in obtaining
blood during a hemorrhage emergency: (a)
nurses were unfamiliar with the paperwork and
the process to get un-crossmatched blood and (b)
a lab technician was not always available during
off hours. As follow-up to the debriefings, an assessment
was completed to improve the process
for obtaining blood from the blood bank, a pro