a relative is in end of life care for terminal cancer in the hospital and received a blood transfusion today. I was just wondering why?

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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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The relative or their healthcare proxy must not have signed a DNR. A doctor must have prescribed the transfusion.

When my grandpa was dying in the hospital, they didn’t even give him IV fluids because it would only prolong the inevitable. A blood transfusion for a dying patient is very strange.

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