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?

Question

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.

In: Biology

Answer 1

Prolong. Death would have come sooner without the transfusion.

Yeah. The answer is that simple.

Why prolong? …well, more complicated question.