Surgical blood ordering schedule for better inventory management: An experience from a tertiary care transfusion center.

Background: Overordering of blood has been a challenge faced by the blood bank staff. The present study addresses the role of maximum surgical blood ordering schedule (MSBOS) in optimizing the blood inventory management.

Methods: The blood requests for elective surgical procedures from various surgical departments were reviewed to constitute MSBOS.

Thrombotic microangiopathy in hematotoxic snakebites and its impact on the prognosis: an entity often overlooked.

Snakebite associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a spectrum of disorders characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute kidney injury (AKI). We carried out this study to find out the prevalence of TMA in hematotoxic snake envenomation and to analyze its impact on the clinical outcome of patients. Retrospective data were collected from the medical records, hospital and lab information system after institutional ethics committee approval.

Role of therapeutic plasma exchange in snake bite associated thrombotic microangiopathy-A case report with review of literature.

Post snake bite renal failure due to thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is often overlooked and not considered as a separate entity while managing the patient. This case report highlights the efficacy of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in managing the post envenomation TMA. Anti-snake venom was administered following severe hematotoxic envenomation, but later on developed acute kidney injury and hence hemodialysis was done for 2 days without much improvement.