Platelet transfusions in clinical practice at a multidisciplinary hospital in North India.
Specialty wise utilization pattern of platelet concentrates (PLT) over a period of 2 months was evaluated prospectively for appropriateness. Overall 4.87 random donor platelets (RDP) (total 1672) units were issued per request. A total of 1101 RDP (66%) were transfused prophylactically against 221 requests (64.4%) while, 571 RDP were transfused for therapeutic (requests=122, 35.6%) reasons. Twenty-three percent of prophylactic requests and 15% of the therapeutic requisitions were not justified. Most common reason for unjustified prophylactic transfusion was unavailability of pre-transfusion platelet count. Concurrent screening of request forms to ensure optimized PLT usage may further decrease platelet misuse at our center.
Verma
Anupam
A
Department of Transfusion Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow, India. aver@sgpgi.ac.in
Pandey
Prashant
P
Khetan
Dheeraj
D
Chaudhary
Rajendra
R
D001782:Blood Donors; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D017713:Platelet Transfusion; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'