Title | Quality Assurance in Blood Banking and Its Clinical Impact [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Symposium on Blood Transfusion, Groningen 1982, organized by the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe / edited by C. Th. Smit Sibinga, P. C. Das, H. F. Taswell |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1984 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2835-3 |
Descript | XVIII, 250 p. online resource |
I. Principles and organization of quality assurance -- International organization of quality assurance -- A national framework of bloodtransfusion organization -- Bloodtransfusion practice in hospitals: A topic for quality assurance -- Discussion -- II. Systems and procedures -- Principles and practices of quality control -- Blood bank standards and procedure manuals -- Administrative procedures and a machine-readable system to assure quality control within a blood bank -- Quality assurance of serological reagents -- Quality control of equipment -- Quality control of blood components -- Immunoglobulin production: Organization and quality control of source material -- Bacterial surveyance in a blood bank -- Discussion -- III. Personnel -- Job descriptions, competency testing and selection of personnel -- Training programs for blood bank personnel -- Continuous education in blood banking and bloodtrans-fusion practice -- Discussion -- IV. Clinical efficacy -- Transfusion practice: Aspects of safety related to clinical efficacy -- Transfusion reactions -- Transmittable diseases and bloodtransfusion -- Platelet transfuseion: Quality control -- Clinical efficacy and safety of Factor VIII concentrate -- The use of indium-labeled granulocytes to help assess the clinical efficacy of granulocyte transfusions -- Discussion -- V. Error Analysis -- Error analysis: Types of errors in the blood bank -- Error analysis: Methods of detection, analysis and control -- Discussion