Stepping up the quality control of transfusion and guaranteeing transfusion safety
Jiang Xi · Zhonghua yiyuan guanli zazhi · 2004
Transfusion safety has become a hot issue of social concern because of the diseases and social problems brought about by transfusion. The following three conditions are indispensable to guaranteeing safe transfusion: ①safe blood and blood products; ②safe transfusion techniques and standardized operation; and ③definite laws or rules and regulations. The paper analyzes the various factors affecting transfusion safety and puts forward strategies for its guarantee: perfecting blood collecting and supplying institutions aecording to law and setting up the platform for safe trtmsfusion; establishing and perfecting a system that will guarantee transfusion quality; making rational use of blood and reducing unnecessary transfusion; and increasing input that will guarantee transfusion quality so as to ensure transfusion safetv.