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Conserving Blood in Preparation for Elective Surgery

Author(s) -

Ahmad Baraka,

Talib Juma,

Sami Asfar,

H. AlSayer

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689108401010

Subject(s) - medicine , blood bank , blood transfusion , emergency medicine , surgery

A prospective study was carried out for a period of 6 months (September 1987 to 28 February 1988) to evaluate the possible misuse of blood transfusion service in the department of surgery, Amiri Teaching Hospital, Kuwait. There was a monthly wastage of 45 +/- 13 units of blood. Five hundred and eleven units of blood were crossmatched but never transfused. The time taken by the blood bank technicians in crossmatching blood which was never used amounted to 54.4% of the normal working hours. An annual loss of about US$25000.00 was calculated to have occurred.

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