title: Platelet transfusions in clinical practice at a multidisciplinary hospital in North India.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transfusion Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow, India. aver@sgpgi.ac.in
authors.forename: Anupam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Prashant
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: Dheeraj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Khetan
authors.forename: Rajendra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chaudhary
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D017713:Platelet Transfusion; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'