The Blood Transfusion Department covers a building area of 426 square meters, with reasonable layout and advanced software and hardware equipment. The department is equipped with special blood storage refrigerator, special low-temperature refrigerator, specimen refrigerator, reagent refrigerator, biological safety cabinet, platelet shock storage box, blood special transport box, plasma melting machine, thrombelastography, platelet special delivery box, blood component separator, automatic blood group analysis system, blood distribution centrifuge, cold chain monitoring system, UPS and other modern advanced equipment, as well as equipment maintenance management system, Tangshan blood transfusion information system, Bio-Asia blood transfusion management information system and other advanced information management software. The Blood Transfusion Department has also set up several subordinate departments including blood transfusion compatibility laboratory, blood storage room, blood allocation room, autologous blood transfusion room, warehouse, data room, meeting room, duty room, decontamination room, etc., and all areas in the department are divided in strict accordance with the requirements of Architectural and Technical Code for Biosafety Laboratories. The flow direction of personnel and materials is reasonable, which can provide strong support for emergency situations such as sudden epidemic situation.
The Blood Transfusion Department is a technical team with rich working experience, strong technical strength and excellent professional quality. The department can provide such clinical technical services as ABO blood group identification, Rh blood group identification, cross matching blood, irregular antibody detection, Coombs test, prenatal blood group serological examination of hemolytic disease of newborn, serological detection of hemolytic disease in newborn, cold agglutinin, thromboelastogram, platelet antibody, etc. And items such as autologous blood transfusion, plasma exchange, and blood cell monocytosis will be provided coming soon.
The department undertakes the tasks of clinical blood management for the hospital, knowledge education of clinical blood use and voluntary blood donation, development and application of new technology and new business, scientific research and teaching. Safe use of blood, reasonable use of blood, saving blood resources is the service concept that the department has been adhering to. In order to ensure the safety of clinical blood use and reduce the occurrence of blood borne adverse events, the department has established comprehensive rules and regulations, a service process and quality management system in accordance with the Blood Donation Law of the People’s Republic of China, Management Measures for Clinical Blood Use in Medical Institutions, Technical Specification of Clinical Blood Transfusion, Basic Requirements for Quality Management of the Blood Transfusion Department in Guangdong Province, and will make continuous improvement in the work. By adhering to patient-centered, quality-based, service-oriented high quality goal, we are committed to providing high-quality, reliable and safe technical services for clinical departments and patients of the hospital Under the leadership of Office of Medical Services, the Blood Transfusion Department is also responsible for relevant work of the Office of Hospital Blood Transfusion Management Committee, guiding in rational use of blood in clinical practice and strengthening clinical communication and supervision, so as to provide a strong guarantee for clinical safe blood use.