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Changing the standard of blood management in Australia: An overview
Journal of Perioperative Nursing, 2018 In 2012 the Patient Blood Management (PBM) guidelines were published by the National Blood Authority, providing a standard of practice for clinicians across Australia.
Alana Delaforce, Jed Duff, Nick Ralph
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Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2015 Background: Transfusion-transmitted infections (TTIs) are one of the biggest threats to blood transfusion safety. Nucleic acid testing (NAT) in blood donor screening has been implemented in many countries to reduce the risk of TTIs.
R. Kumar +3 more
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Automated nucleic acid amplification testing in blood banks: An additional layer of blood safety
Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2015 Context: A total of 30 million blood components are transfused each year in India. Blood safety thus becomes a top priority, especially with a population of around 1.23 billion and a high prevalence rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B
Pragati Chigurupati, KSrinivasa Murthy
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Prevention of Transfusion-Transmitted Infections: Dilemmas
Frontiers in Medicine, 2017 To make blood components and blood products safe, many safety measures are applied to avoid transfusion-transmitted infections. Defining a balanced safety policy is not easy, we face several dilemmas: How safe should blood be?
Hans L. Zaaijer
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Vox Sanguinis, 2015 Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are routinely used in African blood centres. We analysed data from two cross‐sectional studies representing 95 blood centres in 29 African countries.
C. Prugger +7 more
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Automation in Blood Centre: Its impact on Blood Safety
Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2015 Safety of blood and blood components is the major concern of every blood centre. Blood centre needs quality systems and state of the art infrastructure to maintain good laboratory practices in spite of heavy workload.
S. Gupte
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A study on confidential unit exclusion at Shiraz Blood Transfusion Center, Iran
Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2016 Background: Confidential unit exclusion (CUE) system has been designed to enhance transfusion safety as an extra additive approach. Aims: This study was designed to survey demographic characteristics, prevalence of serologic markers, and reasons of ...
Leila Kasraian, Mohammad Hossein Karimi
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Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2016 Introduction: Complications associated with blood donation significantly lower odds of subsequent donations. The aim of the study is to assess the prevalence of complications related to blood donation, identify the influencing factors, and come up with ...
Rajat Kumar Agarwal +8 more
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Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2017 Background and Aim: Blood transfusion plays an important role in improving the health and saves lives. However, it is a double-edged sword, which should be used judiciously as it is also inherently embedded with adverse reactions ranging in severity from
Pallavi Prakash +2 more
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