I couldn’t really get an understandable answer from the nurse. Why would you need a blood transfusion, what would it do when the patient is likely to die in the next few days? Thanks.
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In hospice people is only given treatment for painful symptoms. And things like low blood pressure, low blood count, etc. can cause quite a lot of pain. For example shortness of breath, the feeling of drowning, strong headaches, etc. There may even be issues with administering pain killers like morphine due to low blood pressure. So blood transfusions are permitted to reduce the pain in the last days of someones life. This way they can die of things that is far less painful.
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