How do I manage a blood product shortage?

Background The demand for blood products sometimes exceeds the available inventory. Blood product inventories are dependent upon the availability of donors, supplies and reagents, and collection staff. During prolonged extreme shortages, blood centers and transfusion services must alter practices to...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transfusion (Philadelphia, Pa.) Pa.), 2023-12, Vol.63 (12), p.2205-2213
Hauptverfasser: Gammon, Richard, Becker, Joanne, Cameron, Tracy, Eichbaum, Quentin, Jindal, Aikaj, Lamba, Divjot Singh, Nalezinski, Shaughn, Rios, Jorge, Shaikh, Salima, Shepherd, Janine, Tanhehco, Yvette C.
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Zusammenfassung:Background The demand for blood products sometimes exceeds the available inventory. Blood product inventories are dependent upon the availability of donors, supplies and reagents, and collection staff. During prolonged extreme shortages, blood centers and transfusion services must alter practices to meet the needs of patients. Study Design and Methods The Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies Donor and Blood Component Management Subsection compiled some strategies from its blood center and hospital transfusion service members that could be implemented during blood product shortages. Results Some strategies that blood centers could use to increase their available inventories include increasing donor recruitment efforts, using alternate types of collection kits, manufacturing low‐yield apheresis‐derived platelets and/or whole blood‐derived platelets, using cold−stored platelets, transferring inventory internally among centers of the same enterprise, using frozen inventory, decreasing standing order quantities, prioritizing allocation to certain patient populations, filling partial orders, and educating customers and blood center staff. Transfusion service strategies that could be implemented to maximize the use of the limited available inventory include increasing patient blood management efforts, using split units, finding alternate blood suppliers, trading blood products with other hospital transfusion services, developing a patient priority list, assembling a hospital committee to decide on triaging priorities, using expired products in extreme situations, and accepting nonconforming products after performing safety checks. Discussion Blood centers and transfusion services must choose the appropriate strategies to implement based on their needs.
ISSN:0041-1132
1537-2995
DOI:10.1111/trf.17572