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Research Journal of Medical Sciences

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Return of Unused Blood Components With its Impact on Inventory Management: A Retrospective Study

Prasad P. Kulkarni, Seema Gupta, Melvin Mathew, Mukta Jain, Masum Reza, Vaishali Thakare and Gaurav Kumar
Page: 684-688 | Received 17 Feb 2024, Published online: 18 May 2024

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Abstract

One of the quality indicators for blood transfusion services is blood component wastage. Blood bags may get discarded for number of reasons, including after their expiration date, seropositive units, are not within QC limits, leakages, or are returned with unused component units. The easily avoidable amongst these is the return of unused components. This typically occurs when requests for blood products are made without completing a patient investigation and pre transfusion preparedness. Therefore, blood is requested without assessment of its requirement. This causes wastage of blood units, making it difficult to maintain blood inventory. We analysed returned blood components from different clinical departments retrospectively for a period of 18 months i.e. from January 2022 to June 2023. Total of 113 units were returned, out of which 53 (46.9%) were discarded as they didn’t fulfil the criteria for reuse. The most common reason for return was change in plan of transfusion (28 out of 113, 24.77%) followed by fever prior transfusion (22 out of 113, 19.46%). Maximum no. of return blood units were received from surgical wards (38 out of 113, 33.62%) followed by ICU (35 out of 113, 30.97%). Maximum component units discarded from the total returned bags received were from Surgical departments (21 out of 53, 39.6%) followed by ICU (13 out of 53, 24.5%). The total discard rate due to return components were 0.53%.

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Prasad P. Kulkarni, Seema Gupta, Melvin Mathew, Mukta Jain, Masum Reza, Vaishali Thakare and Gaurav Kumar. Return of Unused Blood Components With its Impact on Inventory Management: A Retrospective Study.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.36478/makrjms.2024.5.684.688
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