Emergency response to COVID-19 epidemic : One Chinese blood centre's experience

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OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 epidemic has caused a significant global social and economic impact since December 2019. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the emergency response of a Chinese blood centre on maintaining both the safety and the sufficiency of blood supply during large, emerging, infectious epidemics.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Early on in the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chengdu Blood Center developed strategies and implemented a series of measures, including enhanced recruitment efforts, addition of new donation deferral criteria and notification after donation, optimisation of donor experience, development and implementation of a new coronavirus nucleic acid detection technology platform for blood screening and screening all donations for SARS-CoV-2 RNA to maximumly protect the safety of blood supply during a time of unclear risk.

RESULTS: Starting on February 20, the immediate satisfaction rate of blood product orders in Chengdu city's clinical settings reached 100%, and there was no case of blood transfusion infection.

CONCLUSION: The recent experience during the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 reminded us that improvement in the areas of national and international collaborative programmes for dealing with blood availability and safety concerns during early stages of a disaster and regional and national mechanisms for timely communication with the general public on behalf of blood services should help to better prepare us for future disasters.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) - 31(2021), 3 vom: 15. Juni, Seite 155-159

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hu, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Kang, Jianxun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaochun [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meng [VerfasserIn]
Deng, Min [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yuwei [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Li, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jie [VerfasserIn]
Xi, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Wen [VerfasserIn]
Gao, Jialiang [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Hua [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Xuemei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Blood center
COVID-19
Emergency response
Journal Article

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Date Completed 16.06.2021

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/tme.12719

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315710233