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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Blood products"”.
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Optimal allocation of blood products
… platelets are licensed for seven days, and blood centers are keen on knowing the consequences of various product collection and distribution strategies. To reduce outdates, inventory managers typically distribute the older units first, thereby following first-in first-out (FIFO) policy; …
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The effective power output of the Taurus 301 blood warmer when warming small volume units of red cell concentrate described using simulated blood products
… the need for a device capable of warming blood rapidly prior to transfusion. Such a device was subsequently developed as a collaborative effort between the Department of Anaesthetics and Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town. The device became known as the …
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Peri-operative use of synthetic intravenous fluid by peri-operative physicians in South Africa
… use crystalloids, although 107/300 (36%) prefer blood products if available. Synthetic colloids for trauma patients unresponsive to initial fluid (normal haemoglobin) would be chosen first by 179/300 (60%), and 12/28 (46%) of non-anaesthesia physicians prefer blood products. Of interest, 10/300 …
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An investigation of blood transfusion practices in a regional obstetric hospital with no on-site blood bank
Background This study aimed to investigate blood transfusion practices in a regional obstetric hospital with no on-site blood bank. Underpinning this research was the argument that principles of evidence-based medicine should apply to blood transfusions in the same way they do to any other clinical …
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Transfusion practices among children undergoing cardiac surgery admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital Paediatrics Intensive Care Unit
Objective- We aimed to describe the use of blood products following cardiac surgery, as well as the outcomes and factors associated with post-operative blood product use Design- Prospective, single centre observational study Setting- Paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Cape Town, South Africa …
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Review of drug and biologics recalls: 2009 through 2019
… recalls included contamination, defective products, and mislabeling. Defective product, mislabeling, and defective packaging were observed to be the common causes of recall for biologics. Injectables have the highest percentage of recalls in drug products, and blood and blood products had …
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Audit of transfusion practice during burns surgery at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital
… burn surgery can be associated with significant blood loss, often requiring transfusion of blood products. In an effort to decrease aforementioned blood loss, various blood conservation strategies have been developed, rendering older formulae to predict intraoperative blood loss ineffective and …
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Optimal Allocation of Resources for Screening of Donated Blood
Blood products, either whole blood or its components, are vital healthcare commodities for patients across all age groups, multiple diagnoses, and in a variety of settings. Meanwhile, blood shortages are common, and are projected to significantly increase in the near future in both developing and …
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Spectrum of coagulation profiles in severely injured patients: A subgroup analysis from the FIRST ( Fluids in Resuscitation of Severe Trauma) trial
… Schuur Hospital and to correlate these with blood product requirements, morbidity and mortality. Method: This is a retrospective study of all patients with complete baseline TEG coagulation parameters collected prior to randomization in the FIRST (Fluids In Resuscitation of Severe Trauma) …
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Standardized Blood Transfusion Documentation
… satisfaction through the use of a standardized blood administration documentation template. The goal was to reduce the time that nurses spend charting by offering a structured documentation template and to ensure that the procedure is correctly recorded in the patient’s electronic record. The …
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Robust Post-donation Blood Screening under Limited Information
Blood products are essential components of any healthcare system, and their safety, in terms of being free of transfusion-transmittable infections, is crucial. While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States requires all blood donations to be tested for a set of infections, it …
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The effect of HIV infection on the incidence and severity of post-partum haemorrhage
… PPH, data regarding background characteristics:- blood loss; cause of PPH and management provided; severity of and morbidity from PPH was analysed by comparing the HIV positive with the HIV negative group. Severity was assessed in terms of blood loss alone. Morbidity on the other hand was a …
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Hepatitis C: A Perspective Through the Social Ecological Model
… source of HCV infection includes transfusion of blood or blood products from unscreened donors, exposure to blood through the use of contaminated and inadequately sterilized instruments and needles used in medical and "traditional" medicine, persons who participate in high-risk sexual practices, …
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Blood plasma-mediated effects on regenerative features of a novel adult human cardiac stem cell population
… interaction with systemic factors carried by the blood is evident. Thus, young blood or blood products are increasingly recognized as potential therapeutic agents to target age-associated malignancies. In this regard, prominent studies in the murine model gained attention by rejuvenating old mice …
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Engineering rFVIIa-loaded platelets; a novel approach to treating acute bleeding
… Current treatments for acute haemorrhage include blood products such as fresh frozen plasma, as well as platelet transfusion and recombinant clotting factors such as rFVIIa. However, the use of recombinant clotting factors is limited due to cost and adverse side effects resulting from increased …
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Integrating Simulation–Optimisation for Multi-Objective Blood Supply Chain Network Design
… as earthquakes and floods can severely disrupt blood supply chains (BSCs), making the timely distribution of blood products a critical challenge. These systems are highly vulnerable to risks, shortages, wastage, and operational disruptions that may prevent life-saving blood from reaching …
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Erythropoietin treatment in anaemic patients at the Nephrology Unit of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital - a retrospective, cross-sectional study
… levels and quantity of administered blood products. Ninety-seven patients met the inclusion criteria. Haemodialysis accounted for 43% (n = 42), and peritoneal dialysis 57% (n = 55). Intergroup comparison between the number of results where both haemoglobin and iron were within the …
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A genealogy of the gift : blood donation in London, 1921-1946
… thesis discusses the historical association of blood donation with narratives of 'the gift'. It is a history of blood-giving in London between the emergence of the city's first voluntary blood donor panel in 1921 and the establishment of the National Blood Transfusion Service in 1946, and …
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A Metaheuristic-Based Simulation Optimization Framework For Supply Chain Inventory Management Under Uncertainty
… as capacity constraints, limited shelf life of products and type-compatible substitutions are also considered and studied by the new framework. The proposed framework has been applied to single-vendor multi-buyer supply chains with the single vendor facing the direct impact of quality deviation …
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Heuristics for the Cutting Stock with Setup Cost and Blood Collection Problems
… and Appointment Scheduling Problem (ICASP). The blood products have limited life time and are required to be collected from donation centers and delivered to a processing center for blood product extraction within a processing time limit. For this problem, a mixed integer programming model is …
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