Guidelines for Setting Up Blood Storage Centres - NRHM Tripura

6. DOCUMENTATION & RECORDS
The Centre should maintain proper records for
procurement, cross-matching and issue of
blood and blood components. These records
should be kept for at least 5 years.
The training will be for three-days duration
during which the Medical Officer and the
technician from the identified FRUs will be
posted at the training institution.
A “Standard Operating Procedures Manual”
7. TRAINING
(SOPM) has been developed and is part of
these guidelines. This SOPM will be used as
Training of doctors and technicians, who will
be responsible for the Blood Storage Centre,
should be carried out for 3 days in an identified
centre as per the guidelines. Training will
include :
the training material. A copy of this SOPM will
be made available to the Medical Officer for
use in his Blood Storage Centre for undertaking
storage, grouping, cross-matching and
transfusion.
• Pre transfusion checking, i.e. patient In addition to the training of the above Medical
identity and grouping
Staff, it is considered necessary that the
• Cross- matching
clinicians who will be responsible for
prescribing the use of blood are also sensitised
• Compatibility
on the various parameters of blood transfusion.
• Problems in grouping and cross-matching
For this the “Clinician’s Guide To Appropriate
• Troubleshooting Use Of Blood” has been developed. It is
• Issue of blood
suggested that one-day sensitisation
• Transfusion Reactions and its management programme for the clinicians may be organised
at the District Hospital/Medical College.
• Disposal of Blood Bags
Government of India will make the
The states will have to identify the institutions
expenditure for the above-mentioned
where training of the staff responsible for
trainings, available as per the norms of training
running the blood bank is to be held. These under the RCH Programme. This training will,
could be the blood banks at Medical Colleges, however, be coordinated by the Training
Regional Blood Banks, Indian Red Cross Blood Division of Department of Family Welfare. The
Banks, or any other well setup, licensed Blood states are required to include training as part of
Bank, provided they have the necessary the overall State Action Plan for establishing
infrastructure for undertaking training.
Blood Storage Centres.
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