AUTOMATION AT EVERY STEP

NEW FACILITIES PROVIDED FOR PATIENTS IN THEMAIN BLOOD BANK, AIIMS

Donor screening and Registration

Biometry and Donor Photograph

Collection Room and Component Lab

Empty blood bag with bar – code and filled blood bags in the refrigerated centrifuge (collection room)

Fully automated blood grouping and antibody screening (EM-

Technology)

Semi-automated blood grouping and antibody screening

(Gel-Technology)

Grouping and Antibody Screening

Transfusion Transmitted Infection testing Lab

Four – plate fully automated ELISA system (da-vinci)

Established Indications Reducing recurrent febrile non-hemolytic transfusion

reactions (FNHTR)Reducing CMV transmission by cellular blood components Reducing HLA alloimmunization

Indications – patientsPatients receiving chemotherapyRefractory to platelet transfusionChronic transfusion requirementsImmunosuppressed patients with CMV sero-negativeBone marrow / PBSCT transplantPremature neonate or infants less then 4 monthsRenal transplant or recipient of solid organ transplant Intrauterine transfusion Hematologic malignancy

Pre storage. leucoreduction

Bedsideleucoreduction

Lab Leukocyte filtration

Top and Bottom Online Filters

PRE-STORAGE LEUCOREDUCTION

APHERESIS MACHINES

TRIMA FRESENIUS HEMONETICS (MCS PLUS)

IRRADIATION

ID – NAT (Individual Donor Nucleic Acid Amplification Test)73,898 donors were screened from July 2010 to August 2012121 units were NAT positive but ELISA negative.

HBV – 73 HBV+HCV – 10 HIV – 01 HCV - 37

(121X3=363 patients were saved because of NAT)

BUFFY COAT POOLED PLATELETS (NAT tested)

Platelet pooled from whole blood

collection.

For patients who can not afford to avail

Single donor Platelets

NAT tested to make them safer.

Mobile Van For Voluntary Blood Donation

Indications Bone marrow transplant recipients

Congenital cellular immunodeficiency syndrome patients

Intra-uterine transfusion recipients and neonatal exchange transfusion recipients

Patients with Hodgkin's disease or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Patients receiving HLA-matched components or components from biologic relativesGammacell Irradiator

PANTHER for NAT Testing