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Technology to Enhance Transfusion Safety
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Created: 28 Sept. 2005 | Last updated: 10 Jan. 2010
TraQ clearinghouse for the latest (mainly 2005) literature and news on technological tools to enhance transfusion safety
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Because hemovigilance systems have revealed misidentification errors as transfusion hot spots, several technological tools are being promoted to eliminate identification errors and enhance transfusion safety.
Also see TraQ Case O2 - Communication tools for managing patients with special transfusion needs (fludarabine therapy) - for further discussion of mistake proofing.
Overviews
Literature
Beyea SC, Majewski C. Blood transfusion in the OR - are you practicing safely. AORN Journal, Dec. 2003.
Dzik WH, Corwin H, Goodnough LT, Higgins M, Kaplan H, Murphy M, et al .Patient safety and blood transfusion: new solutions. Transfus Med Rev 2003 Jul;17(3):169–80.
Dzik WH. Technology for enhanced transfusion safety. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2005:476-82.
Kaplan HS. Getting the right blood to the right patient: the contribution of near-miss event reporting and barrier analysis.Transfus Clin Biol 2005 Nov;12(5):380–4. Epub 2005 Nov 28.
Koshy R. Navigating the information technology highway: computer solutions to reduce errors and enhance patient safety. Transfusion 2005 Oct;45 Suppl 4:189S–205S.
Marconi M, Langeberg AF, Sirchia G, Sandler SG. Improving transfusion safety by electronic identification of patients, blood samples, and blood units. Immunohematol. 2000;16(2):82-5.
Barcoding
Literature (barcodes)
Davies A, Staves J, Kay J, Casbard A, Murphy MF. End-to-end electronic control of the hospital transfusion process to increase the safety of blood transfusion: strengths and weaknesses. Transfusion 2006 Mar;46(3):352–64.
MF, Kay JD. Barcode identification for transfusion safety. Curr Opin Hematol 2004 Sep;11(5):334–8.
Porcella A, Walker K. Patient safety with blood products administration using wireless and bar-code technology. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;614–8.
Turner CL, Casbard AC, Murphy MF. Barcode technology: its role in increasing the safety of blood transfusion. Transfusion. 2003 Sep;43(9):1200–9.
Other (barcodes)
4 Italian hospitals use RFID to share blood and monitor transfusion (28 Mar. 2008)
John Radcliffe Hospital to develop electronic decision support to guide appropriate prescribing as part of its electronic blood transfusion system (E-health Insider, 10 Feb. 2005)
Hospital tests barcoding patients (BBC, 7 June 2004)
Exploring the benefits of barcoding (Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory)
Experience using barcoded wristband systems (CBBS e-Network Forum)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Literature (RFID)
Bates DW. Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals. Br Med J 2000;320:788–91.
Coffey RP. Technology cannot replace healthcare workers (letter). Br Med J 2000;321:505.
van der Togt R, van Lieshout EJ, Hensbroek R, Beinat E, Binnekade JM, Bakker PJMet al. Electromagnetic interference from radio frequency identification inducing potentially hazardous incidents in critical care medical equipment. JAMA 2008 Jun 25;299(24):2884–90.
Wenz B, Burns ER. Improvement in transfusion safety using a new blood unit and patient identification system as part of safe transfusion practice. Transfusion 1991 Jun;31(5):401–3.
Other (RFID)
USA: NIH & HHS award $1.4 million to investigate potential benefits of RFID for automatic identification & tracking of blood products across entire TM supply chain (28 Oct. 2009)
Exploring the value of RFID in blood transfusion
2008 UK conference with downloadable presentations by Sunny Dzik, Mike Murphy & others
Hospital equipment may be at risk from RFIF tags (24 June 2008)
Tracking blood the RFID way (26 Nov. 2007)
Pilot project to assess RFID use in blood banks (19 Dec. 2006)
RFID tags spark privacy concerns (16 Oct. 2006)
RFID system targets blood mix-ups (Boston Globe, 24 Feb. 2005)
Backgrounders (RFID)
What is the RFID-hype all about? (BBC, 27 Apr. 2004)
Radio Nodes
Germany:
Blood bags with 'intelligent' radio nodes being developed
(4 Dec. 2009)
Barrier systems
Experience using Blood-Loc and other barrier systems (CBBS e-Network Forum)
Commercial sites
Datalog International
Novatek Medical
BloodlocTM - marketed by AMTSystems
Olympus
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