Evaluation of Causes and Rate of Wastage of Blood and its Components – An Important Quality Indicator in Blood Banks.

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dc.contributor.authorJairajpuri, ZSen_US
dc.contributor.authorSehgal, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorKhetrapal, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorJetley, Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorRana, S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T06:58:51Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T06:58:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.description.abstractBackground: The evaluation of wastage of blood products represents an important element in the appropriate use of blood components, a critical control point in the system of blood administration. Discarding or wastage of blood can be attributed to several reasons namely time expiry, wasted import, non-usage of ordered blood, broken bags and seal with leakage, hemolytic reasons, clotted blood, returned after 30 min, and miscellaneous others.Wasting of blood and blood components are an inefficient use of resources and may be avoided. The present study was undertaken with aim of primarily to determine the frequency of blood products wasting and secondarily to determine the factors that affect blood products wastage at our institute. Methods: The present study is a retrospective cross sectional descriptive study conducted in a tertiary teaching hospital located in South Delhi catering to low socioeconomic population. Blood component wastage was defined as components that did not meet the required standards of hospitals or fractionation centres during collection, processing and storage. The main reasons included expiry date, inappropriate volume, haemolysis of red blood cells (RBCs), contamination of plasma or platelets with RBCs, blood bag leakage, reactive infectious disease tests and inappropriate temperature during storage or transportation. The required data from clinical units and blood bank were collected and analyzed for a period of 7 years. Results: A total of 13728 blood units were received during the specified period. Overall wasted factor was of 18.5% with maximum wastage of platelet concentrate units (53.7%). Analyzing the causes of blood and blood product wastage in the hospital for this study showed that blood and blood product wastage were associated with many causes of which the common causes, included the expiration of the usability period (69.2%), sero-reactivity for infectious diseases (13.7%) and Quality Control units (9.2%). Conclusion: Blood is an irreplaceable precious resource which needs to be properly utilized with minimal wastage. Although present study was limited due to its retrospective nature but it still outlines the importance to emphasize that measures should be taken into account for formulating guidelines, effective policies, and training efforts for personnel.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDepartment of Pathology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJairajpuri ZS, Sehgal S, Khetrapal S, Jetley S, Rana S.. Evaluation of Causes and Rate of Wastage of Blood and its Components – An Important Quality Indicator in Blood Banks.. Light House Polyclinic. 2022 Jun; 21(2): 1-3en_US
dc.identifier.issn0972-5997
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/218300
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherLight House Polyclinicen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber2en_US
dc.relation.volume21en_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.ojhas.org/issue82/2022-2-7.pdfen_US
dc.subjectWastageen_US
dc.subjectBlooden_US
dc.subjectBlood Componentsen_US
dc.subjectQuality Indicatoren_US
dc.subjectBlood banken_US
dc.titleEvaluation of Causes and Rate of Wastage of Blood and its Components – An Important Quality Indicator in Blood Banks.en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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