Provision of an out-of-hours blood banking service at a satellite hospital without blood bank staff.
With limited health care resources and financial constraints, many hospitals have to reduce their service. Computer crossmatching has been accepted as a safe crossmatching procedure for patients without clinically significant alloantibodies. We report here a novel way of providing an out-of-hours blood banking service at a satellite hospital. The system is easy to introduce and can provide a safe transfusion service to small hospitals without stationing blood banking staff at these hospitals after regular working hours.
Cheng
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Department of Pathology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong.
Chui
C H
CH
Yeung
K L
KL
Kan
E O
EO
Wong
S Y
SY
Yee
K O
KO
Yip
S C
SC
Leung
M N
MN
Fung
H K
HK
Fan
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TC
D001771:Blood Banks; D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching; D001803:Blood Transfusion; D003199:Computer Systems; D006723:Hong Kong; D006781:Hospitals, Satellite; D006801:Humans