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Blood Bank and Transfusion

Manage blood inventory and storage

Available to

Blood bank technologists and supervisors.

Inventory lists every unit with its component, group, volume, expiry and storage. Storage units keep a temperature log so that a failure is caught.

Manage units

  1. Open Blood Bank → Inventory. Use the filters Available, Quarantine and Expiring in 48 h, or group by ABO, Component or Status.
  2. Open a unit in Quarantine and select Release to Inventory. This needs the unit to have all mandatory screening markers verified negative, two matching ABO / Rh determinations by different people, an approved component type, and a storage unit without an open temperature excursion.
  3. Use Quarantine to hold an available unit, and Discard (with a Discard Reason) to remove it.
Inventory: component, group, volume, expiry and storage for each unit.
Inventory: component, group, volume, expiry and storage for each unit.
An available unit with Quarantine and Discard actions.
An available unit with Quarantine and Discard actions.

Unit states

Unit stateMeaning
QuarantineNot yet released, or held.
AvailableReady to be reserved and issued.
ReservedAllocated to a patient until a set time.
Issued, Transfused, ReturnedFollowed through the issue and transfusion.
Discarded, ExpiredNo longer usable.
Storage units with their allowed temperature range and current state.
Storage units with their allowed temperature range and current state.

Temperature excursions

Open Storage and Temperatures to see each storage unit's allowed range and last reading. When a reading goes out of range, the unit moves to Temperature excursion. A supervisor documents the impact on the stored units on the latest log entry, and then selects Clear Excursion After Assessment. The latest reading must be back in range.

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