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How do we utilize a transfusion safety officer?
Author(s) -
Dunbar Nancy M.,
Szczepiorkowski Zbigniew M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
transfusion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.045
H-Index - 132
eISSN - 1537-2995
pISSN - 0041-1132
DOI - 10.1111/trf.13184
Subject(s) - medicine , documentation , officer , certification , blood transfusion , medical emergency , transfusion medicine , patient safety , quality assurance , perioperative , intensive care medicine , surgery , health care , computer science , external quality assessment , pathology , political science , law , economics , programming language , economic growth
The hospital transfusion safety officer (TSO) serves an important role in improving transfusion safety outside of the laboratory through education, active surveillance of the transfusion process (patient identification, blood administration, appropriate ordering practices, transfusion reactions, incidents, and near misses), patient blood management (blood utilization review, minimization of perioperative blood loss, documentation review), quality improvement (transfusion guidelines development, transfusion committee or peer review participation, massive transfusion protocols), and research. We provide a description of how we utilize our hospital‐based TSO to improve transfusion safety and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and maintenance of certification at our institution.