Transfusion Medicine

Blood transfusion is an essential therapeutic intervention and is a vital part of the health care service. We all may need blood in an emergency and some of us need regular transfusions.The purpose of a transfusion is to provide the blood components that will improve the physiological status of the patient. Increasing advancement in the field of transfusion medicine and technology has necessitated enforcing measures to ensure quality of Blood and its products.

Blood Centre at BIACH & RI is well-equipped with adequate infrastructure and trained manpower for quality safety and efficacy of blood and blood products.

The hospital blood centre is responsible for the collection of blood (often from family/ replacement blood donors) testing for transfusion ­ transmissible infections by Vitros ECIQ, Immuno Diagnostic Assay System, Blood group , Rh typing, Antibody screening by fully automated analyzer ­ Galileo Echo and processing into blood components and storage. It is also performs compatibility testing and issues blood and blood components for clinical use within the hospital or to near by health care facilities. The centre is also have a voluntary blood donor programme.

Apheresis is a procedure carried out to harvest a particular component and returning the rest of the blood to the donor by an automated machine. 4 machines working in our blood centre.This procedure should be carried out only in a blood bank licensed for this purpose. Facilities available for Plateletpheresis (single donor platelets) and Leukapheresis from whole blood using continuous and intermittent flow cell separators.

Therapeutic cytopheresis done only at the written request of the patient´s physician with in the blood bank or preferably in the word depending on paten´s clinical condition. Autologous and Allogenic Hematopoietic stem cell harvesting and cryopreservation.

Blood Irradiator

- Cellular components should be irradiated in order to reduce the risk of post transfusion GVHD

- for all immune suppressed patients including bone marrow transplant patients

- When blood from a blood relative is used (instead of blood relative can we use some other word)

- Incase of exchange transfusion following intra uterine transfusion