The government is engaged in producing and distributing of blood and blood products as a part of public health, medical and therapeutic needs through the Iranian blood transfusion organization which works under supervision of ministry of health and medical education. The multiple lawsuits of compensating blood infections have prompted the organization, to claim exemption from compensation of bl...

Background and purpose: Blood transfusion is one of the essential and important parts of modern medicine. Blood transfusions are life saving for some patients, but some risks such as body's response should always be considered. This study was conducted to determine the incidence of transfusion outcomes and identifying the relationship between demographic profile of patients and some properties ...

Blood over ordering is a common practice in elective surgeries which can be corrected by a simple mean of changing the blood ordering pattern. Nowadays, the use of Maximum Surgical Blood Ordering Schedule (MSBOS) is the accepted standard of practice for hospital blood banking almost throughout the world. Therefore, a retrospective study was carried out for the first time in Firoozga...

  Transfusion medicine   past, present, future     Pourfathollah A.A.1,2(PhD)     1 Tarbiat Modarres University   2 Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization-Research Center