In Pakistan, existing blood control systems or information management are limited in terms of efficient data retrieval donor to consumer. There is no communication network place for extra one location be demanded from a region if limited, resulting wastage. Due lack accessibility and sufficient quality testing, contaminated with illnesses such as HIV has been used transfusion some cases. This s...

OBJECTIVES To report 2-years experience of using transfusion-related quality indicators as a tool in hemovigilance system implementation.  METHODS The study was carried out between 2012 and 2013. Blood transfusion service data were prospectively collected at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Donor reactions, transfusion reactions, fresh frozen plasma (FFP) in-date wast...

Blood transfusion is an essential component in modern healthcare. being irreplaceable resource needs to be appropriately utilized with preferably minimal or zero percent wastage. Only one third of required blood units are collected a Northern Tanzania Hospital, demanding the need for rate discard and products. This study aimed determine reasons discarding products at Zone Transfusion Centre Tan...

Student wastage in higher education is a problem of great importance in our society. The time has come to try to start a service to give specialised help for redeployment in continued education or in suitable employment that carries further training prospects. This would be not only a humane social service, but a real component of the educational and economic system. At present, wastage in the ...

The safety of the blood supply, an issue in the 1970s and 1980s, created an increased need to screen the blood supply for HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus infections. The possibility exists that other contamination could again affect the blood supply. This has resulted in the increased use of strategies to minimize the transfusion of allogeneic blood, such as autologous blood predeposit for elective...

OBJECTIVE This study examined measles vaccine wastage during an outbreak response in Madang Province of Papua New Guinea from June 2014 to March 2015. METHODS Vaccine wastage was defined as the number of doses received by a health centre minus the total number of doses administered during and returned following the outbreak vaccination campaign. Vaccine data were collected from the Provincial...

PURPOSE To compare outcomes of 2 cohorts of patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) before and after the introduction of a blood management protocol. METHODS Records of 97 and 96 consecutive patients who underwent unilateral TKA before and after introduction of the blood management protocol, respectively, were reviewed. Before introduction of the protocol, patients were cross-mat...