Effects of Blood Transfusion Sets on Red Blood Cell Hemolysis

Larissa Perez Pardo¹, Denise Miyuki Kusahara, Maria Paula de Oliveira Pires+4

• ¹Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (Mss Pardo and Drs Pires, Avelar, Kusahara, Peterlini, and Pedreira); Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil (Ms Pardo and Pires); The Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Ms Pires); Colsan Blood Collection Association, São Paulo, Brazil (Mr Nani). Larissa Perez Pardo, MSN, RN, is an adjunct professor of nursing at Paulista University and a PhD candidate in the Paulista School of Nursing at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Denise Miyuki Kusahara, PhD, RN, is an adjunct professor at Universidade Federal de São Paulo-Brazil. Maria Paula de Oliveira Pires, PhD, RN, is an adjunct professor in nursing at Paulista University. She is also an adjunct research fellow at Universidade Federal de São Paulo and the AVATAR group Menzies Health Institute Queensland at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Luiz Augusto Silva Nani, BS, is a biologist specialist in clinical and toxicological analyses, and laboratory supervisor of the blood components quality control at Colsan Blood Collection Association in São Paulo, Brazil. Ariane Ferreira Machado Avelar, PhD, RN, is an associate professor at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo-Brazil. Maria Angélica Sorgini Peterlini, PhD, RN, is associate professor at the Federal University of São Paulo. Mavilde Luz Gonçalves Pedreira, PhD, RN, is associate professor at the Federal University of São Paulo.