Rational use of blood and blood products.

Frequency of Blood Components Wastage and Associated Factors in Yazd Healthcare Centers

Background: Excessive ordering of blood components imposes heavy costs to blood transfusion centers and increases the amount of blood product wastage due to lack of their use. In recent years, attempts have been made against unnecessary blood and blood product requests in our country. We aimed to investigate the frequency of blood and blood product wasting in healthcare centers of Yazd city in ...

Access and Rational use of Plasma Protein Therapies (PPTs)

Study of Blood Products Utilization in Major Departments of Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran

Background: In the present study the amount of requested blood products in major departments of Imam Reza Medical Center, Kermanshah, Iran has been studied to evaluate the necessity of these requests and also the amount of blood products wastage because of unnecessary requests. Materials and Methods: In the present study the information related to 4832 unit of requested blood products from Ira...

Evaluation of Changes in Blood Products Transfusion Indices Following Three Years of Implementation of Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization Standards

Background: Increasing demand for blood and blood products mostly due to increased individual access to health care services rises the concerns over lack of adequate amounts of blood products. It also can impose additional costs to blood transfusion centers and may increase transfusion-related complications. We aimed to investigate the impact of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization (IBTO)...

Evaluation of erythrocyte use in Imam Khomeini Hospital in Mahallat

Abstract Background and Objectives Given transfusion complications, high expenses, inadequacy of resources and time constraint in ensuring blood products, it is necessary to investigate the status of blood consumption and factors affecting the proper use of products.  In this study, the consumption status of RBCs was investigated in Imam Khomeini Hospital in Mahallat city.   Materials and Met...

Maximum surgical blood ordering schedule improves blood utilization in elective surgeries :An experience in Faghihi hospital, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract Background and Objectives Over-ordering of blood before operation can cause unnecessary cross matches, blood bank staff overload, blood unit wastages due to outdating, and increase hospital costs. So, we aimed to survey the efficacy of MSBOS on blood utilization in Faghihi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran.   Materials and Methods This cross sectional study was conducted over a three month per...