CaridianBCT Solutions for Blood Safety
Trima Accel Collection System
Bacterial Sampling Set
Trima Accel Enhanced PPC Set
OrbiSac System
Mirasol Pathogen Reduction Technology
Component Safety
Strategies to enhance patient care
Blood components provide vital, life-saving resources key to high-quality patient care. With blood products from one donor used across multiple patients, blood product safety must meet very high standards.
These standards are critically important, yet add real challenges to blood bank and collection center operations. Blood collection facilities faces the dual pressures of fulfilling the increasing demand for blood while achieving the incremental advances in blood safety and quality standards.
External threats to blood safety
Blood components are safer than ever before, primarily thanks to advances in donor selection and testing. Yet, health risks from transfusion-transmitted disease remain. External threats that impact the safety of the blood supply persist and continue to emerge from a variety of pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, parasites, and leukocytes.
Blood banks and collection centers combine careful donor selection with the routine use of blood screening tests as the basis for a safe blood supply. But there are additional ways to enhance blood safety. Using CaridianBCT technologies, blood banks and collection centers can implement effective safety strategies, including:
- Use of single-donor platelets to minimize overall donor exposure
- Pre-storage leukoreduction to mitigate disease transmission, alloimmunization, adverse transfusion reactions, and immunomodulation
- Bacterial testing of platelets, which minimizes the risk for severe or fatal complications from transfusion-related bacterial sepsis and may allow for 7-day storage of platelets
- Pathogen reduction of blood products, a technology under development to inactivate known and unknown pathogens found in donated blood components
- Diversion of the first aliquot of donated blood to reduce the risk for bacterial contaminated blood components
Challenges inside the blood center: the people factor
Every time an improvement is made to blood safety, new standards are likely to be imposed on your blood collection center. In the highly regulated environment of blood centers it can be difficult to manage these ever-evolving standards — especially with limited resources. Consistency and quality become even more important.
Manual processes make consistency challenging — the end result varies depending on many factors. Human error may compromise the quality and safety of the blood components.
CaridianBCT provides effective strategies to reduce these risks and ensure your center delivers blood products of consistent quality. Using process automation and integrated information technology, your blood center will improve consistency, compliance and traceability of blood products throughout your operations.
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