Reasons for discarding whole blood and its components in a tertiary care teaching hospital blood bank in South India

Introduction: Each unit of blood is precious and has to be utilized properly with minimal discards. The aim of this study was to find out the reasons for discarding blood and blood components. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively studied all whole blood and blood components collected during Ja...

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Main Authors: Suresh B, Sreedhar Babu KV, Arun R, Chandra Mouli P, Jothibai DS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2015-07-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Scientific Research
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Online Access:http://svimstpt.ap.nic.in/jcsr/Jul-Sep15_files/4oa15.pdf