A Patient with a Recent Diagnosis of ITP Has Asked

Multiple Choice

A patient with a recent diagnosis of ITP has asked the nurse why the care team has not chosen to
Administer platelets, stating, I have low platelets, so why not give me a transfusion of exactly what Im missing? How should the nurse best respond?

A) Transfused platelets usually arent beneficial because theyre rapidly destroyed in the body.
B) A platelet transfusion often blunts your bodys own production of platelets even further.
C) Finding a matching donor for a platelet transfusion is exceedingly difficult.
D) A very small percentage of the platelets in a transfusion are actually functional.