Blood Utilization and Quality Indicators - Trend at a Super Specialty Hospital in Northern India

Blood components are a scarce and expensive resource. Therefore, there is a need to continuously monitor blood utilization and audit the transfusion practices to identify key areas of concern for blood usage. We assessed the transfusion data for the patients requiring blood transfusion at our hospital for a period of one year from January 2015 to December 2015 using patient transfusion requisition forms, crossmatch and issue records. A total of 2434 blood transfusion requisitions were received by the Department of Transfusion Medicine for 3621 (49.69%) packed red cells (PRBC) units, 2140 (27.59%) fresh frozen plasma (FFP), 1923 (24.80%) random donor platelet concentrates (RDP), 15 (0.19%)whole blood units and 55 (0.56%) single donor apheresis platelet concentrates (SDP).The overall average CT Ratio (1.57), Transfusion probability (79.0%) and Transfusion index (1.18) demonstrated that there is efficient blood utilization at our hospital.