Wastage of Blood Units at Tertiary Care Hospitals of Lahore

Baig, Mirza Iqra; Javed, Aymen; Naveed, Muhammad Asif; Nawab, Kashifa; Alam, Syed Anwaar; Asif, Muhammad

doi:10.7759/cureus.8040

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“…15 Aside from the obvious wastage of blood itself, time and increased workload on limited blood bank staff, and consumption of reagents and blood bags need consideration. 16 As most blood supply in LMICs comes from replacement donors (only 25% of blood donors in Nigeria are volunteers), blood will be lacking for a patient going for surgery if a friend or relative has not donated. 17,18 If blood cross-matching is a requirement for CS, the result is then a delay in accessing CS at the health facility.…”

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Blood reservation and utilisation practice for Caesarean section in Ilorin, Nigeria

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Most blood units routinely cross-matched for patients undergoing Caesarean section (CS) in Nigeria are not used for transfusion. Over-ordering increases blood wastage, blood bank running costs, surgery costs and waiting times. A one-year review of all CS performed in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Nigeria, was thus conducted to evaluate blood reservation and utilisation practice. Efficiency of blood utilisation was evaluated using a cross-match to transfusion (C/T) ratio, transfusion probability (TP) and transfusion index (TI). The overall C/T ratio, TP and blood wastage were, respectively, 3.1, 24.6%, and 68%, indicative of inefficient blood utilisation. Establishing a Maximal Surgical Blood Order Schedule (MSBOS), which estimates the units of blood required for specific CS indications, is recommended to minimise blood over-ordering. Blood grouping alone should be done for patients at low risk for transfusion. For moderate risk patients, blood type and screen without cross-matching should be done, reserving cross-matching for high-risk patients.

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“…15 Aside from the obvious wastage of blood itself, time and increased workload on limited blood bank staff, and consumption of reagents and blood bags need consideration. 16…”

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Blood reservation and utilisation practice for Caesarean section in Ilorin, Nigeria

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“…Descriptive statistics of hospitals readiness, donors’ demographic characteristics, and blood usage rates were stratified against major Saudi cities based on population size. The performance indicator, wastage as a percentage of issues (WAPI), is a metric of different types of wastage (expiration, temperature control error, and miscellaneous) and solely accounts for issued products and not the size of blood bank’s inventory ( Baig et al, 2020 ). WAPI was calculated as follows:

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Demography and blood donation trends in Saudi Arabia: A nationwide retrospective, cross-sectional study

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Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences

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“…Distribution of blood units to the blood bank and hospital includes some computational aspects to ensure timely delivery of the blood to the patients, as well as after the collection of blood as those units need to be delivered to the blood bank quickly for preservation purpose. Over time, various techniques (Chaudhari et al, 2018;AlZu'bi et al, 2022;Sadri et al, 2021;Alexander & Adler, 2020) have been proposed to manage and distribute blood units. These works (Chaudhari et al, 2018;AlZu'bi et al, 2022;Sadri et al, 2021) optimized the blood donation process by preventing blood shortages and minimizing the wastage of blood units with regards to the expiration.…”

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A Novel Approach to Organize Blood Donation Camp and Blood Unit Wastage Management

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Ghosh

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International Journal of Software Innovation

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In the countries or areas where the supply-demand ratio of blood is not maintained, the medication process is being deteriorated, and this may be as fatal as death of the patients. It is being observed in different areas in different seasons or may be at the time of festival scarcity of blood may happen. On the other hand, if the blood donation camp is organized frequently, there may be a surplus of blood as it has expiry dates. Along with these issues, due to the transportation or mismanagement, blood units are wasted. These problems are addressed in this research work, and methodologies are proposed to determine the most suitable blood bank with respect to the blood donation camp. Further, a demand forecasting algorithm is used both for predicting the blood unit demand of every blood bank and for transferring excess blood units to the blood bank where it is needed the most, and also, for the efficient transportation of the blood units, taxicab geometry-based paths are employed.

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Wastage of Blood Units at Tertiary Care Hospitals of Lahore

Abstract: Baig et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Blood reservation and utilisation practice for Caesarean section in Ilorin, Nigeria

Blood reservation and utilisation practice for Caesarean section in Ilorin, Nigeria

Demography and blood donation trends in Saudi Arabia: A nationwide retrospective, cross-sectional study

A Novel Approach to Organize Blood Donation Camp and Blood Unit Wastage Management

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