A comprehensive approach to continuous quality improvement of massive transfusion by developing key performance indicators.

Background And Objectives: To develop key performance indicators (KPI) for use in quality assessment of our institutional goal-directed massive transfusion (GDMT).

Materials And Methods: A team comprising our transfusion and emergency medicine departments carried out a cross-sectional data analysis of GDMT in adult patients from January 2021 to December 2022. The study was rooted in the Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) approach.

S.O.S. - Save our supplies: Understanding reasons to tackle the challenge of wasted returned blood products.

Objectives: To evaluate the return of blood components across different hospital areas, reasons for the same and suggest preventive strategies which might reduce out of controlled temperature storage (CTS) blood logistics and wastage.

Material And Methods: A retrospective audit was carried out in the department of Transfusion Medicine from January 2019 to December 2022. Data related to returned blood components was compiled using departmental records and blood centre software entries.

'Ironing out the risk': Assessing the effect of plateletpheresis donation frequency on iron stores in South-Asian male donors.

Background And Objectives: Repeated blood donation is a well-known cause of iron deficiency among donors. However, present scientific literature lacks comprehensive evidence regarding the impact of regular plateletpheresis procedures on body iron reserves. In this study, we aimed to detect and correlate iron deficiency (using iron indices) with the frequency of platelet donations.