Type and Significance of Transfunded Blood Products

Blood transfusion is when blood and blood products are given to patients during medical treatment. Nowadays, transfusion centers worldwide constantly face the same challenge: how to provide sufficient quantities of high-quality and safe preparations for each patient at the right time.

The aim of the study was to determine the number of transfused patients,the amount and type of blood products in the Polyclinic of Transfusion in the period from 01.01. to 31.12.2021.

The data about the total number of blood donations, the number of blood products produced from whole blood, and the type of blood products issued, were retrospectively used from the available database of the information system Renovation Polyclinic of transfusion, University Clinical Centre Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The study was carried out at the University Clinical Center Tuzla in the Polyclinic for Transfusion, in the period 01.01.2021-31.12.2021., where 29672 different blood preparations were given for the transfusion treatment of 5081 patients. In the same period, 14191 voluntary blood donors came to the Polyclinic for Transfusion of the University Clinical Center Tuzla 75.4% donated blood, and 24.6% of donors did not meet the requirements for donating blood. In the investigated period out of a total of 5,081 transfused patients, 27.4% received only one type of blood product, and even 72.6% of patients were transfused with several different blood products.

According to our results, we can conclude that the maximum number of collected blood units is transfused, and some plasma preparations are even 86.3% more than collected, which leads us to the conclusion that it is necessary to maintain the continuity of the collection of blood supplies and to work on increasing the number of voluntary blood donors to ensure needed blood products for treatment of patients, and in the same time keep the minimum of blood reserve for extraordinary situation as was COVID-19 pandemic.