Guidelines for Quality Assurance Programmes for Blood Transfusion Services

Quality assurance programmes in transfusion serology.

INTRODUCTION A An external Quality Assurance Programme (QAP) in Blood Transfusion Serology (TS) has a number of featureswhich make it different 3 from other QAPs. An awareness of these distinctive differences is essential for the success of a TS QAP. Unlike those programmes which require machine-based measurement of analyte levels and numerical reporting, TS is a discipline which is essentially...

Analysis of quality assurance programmes for HIV screening in blood transfusion centres in Delhi.

The safety of blood transfusion has attained tremendous importance because of the problems posed by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other transfusion-transmissible diseases. While performing screening tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies in donated blood is indispensable, it is also essential to introduce an effective quality assurance programme covering inspect...

Hot Blood for Transfusion

The importance of warming up the whole blood before transfusion , parti -cularly when large amounts of stored blood is used for patients in shock or under general anesthesia is discussed. Var­ious methods of Warming blood is presn­tcd and the use of high frequency Ele­ctromagnetic field for this purpose and its adv1mtagcs is introduced. 

Guidelines and Quality Assurance for Acquired Cytogenetics

Guidelines for pre-transfusion compatibility procedures in blood transfusion laboratories

1.1. Purpose of pre-transfusion guidelines. Technical errors and/or inappropriate test systems or administrative errors may result in immediate and delayed haemolytic transfusion reactions. The purpose of these guidelines, which replace those previously published (BCSH, 1991a), is to define organizational, documentation and technical procedures undertaken in hospital or Regional Transfusion Cen...