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Type and Hold System for Better Blood Utilization
Author(s) -
Huang S. T.,
Lair J.,
Floyd D. M.,
Cole G. W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1980.20681057165.x
Subject(s) - blood bank , blood conservation , intensive care medicine , quality (philosophy) , medicine , frame (networking) , service (business) , operations management , medical emergency , business , blood transfusion , risk analysis (engineering) , surgery , computer science , marketing , economics , telecommunications , philosophy , epistemology
Blood bank personnel can convince surgeons to change their presurgical blood orders from a type‐and‐cross‐match to a type‐and‐hold approach. To do this, it is necessary to guarantee blood availability within a short time frame if blood should be unexpectedly required. Such a change in blood orders significantly reduced the number of unnecessary crossmatches and the amount of wasted outdated blood in our institution. Economic savings and conservation of resources were realized without compromising the patients' safety or the quality of our service.