Transfusion Medicine

Department Name: Blood Transfusion Department

Department Development History: Since the establishment of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, the Blood Transfusion Department has adhered to the quality policy of “safe, accurate, timely, and effective,” continuously strengthening the scientific, institutional, standardized, informatized, and humanized development of blood transfusion services, and has gradually developed into a medical technology department integrating testing, blood supply, teaching, and scientific research. In 1984, the Department of Laboratory Medicine established a blood bank, which was officially renamed the Blood Transfusion Department in 2001. In 2011, it was relocated to the Surgical Building, with an expanded area of more than 300 square meters. It undertakes various medical tasks, including the storage, testing, and issuing of blood products, clinical blood transfusion consultation and consultation services, and monitoring of adverse transfusion reactions. In 2014, it was approved by the Beijing Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission to become the Beijing Blood Transfusion Technical Personnel Training Base, receiving job training for technical personnel from blood transfusion departments in Beijing. In December 2019, the Blood Transfusion Department successfully passed the international medical laboratory accreditation to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 15189 international standard for medical laboratories organized by the National Accreditation Committee. In September 2020, the Blood Transfusion Department established an organ transplantation matching laboratory and began conducting organ transplantation matching tests, providing a reliable basis for pre-transplant HLA matching, antibody testing, and cytological matching for patients and clinical practice, as well as continuous post-transplant antibody monitoring and prediction of rejection reactions.

Department Personnel Composition: The department director is Cao Yongtong, the quality manager is Lu Hongkai, the blood transfusion technical director is Zhao Ru, and the transplantation matching technical director is Chen Lida. The Blood Transfusion Department has 25 staff members, including 1 chief physician, 1 laboratory physician, and 23 technicians, including 3 doctors, 3 masters, 18 bachelor’s degree holders, and 1 secondary technical school graduate.

Cao Yongtong, male, Doctor of Medicine, chief physician, professor, doctoral postgraduate supervisor. He currently serves as the director of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and the Blood Transfusion Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital. He has successively engaged in clinical surgery, clinical laboratory medicine, and clinical blood transfusion therapy for more than 20 years, undertaken projects supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, national “863” special projects, and Beijing Capital Featured Special Projects, and published more than 40 SCI papers. He concurrently serves as a member of the Laboratory Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Clinical Transfusion Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a standing committee member of the Laboratory Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine, a standing committee member of the Laboratory Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a standing committee member of the Medical Laboratory Branch of the Beijing Medical Association, and deputy director of the Laboratory Medicine Professional Committee of the Beijing Association of Integrative Medicine. He is a member of the Blood Transfusion Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and deputy director of the Expert Committee of the Beijing Clinical Blood Transfusion Quality Control and Improvement Center.

Outpatient and Inpatient Ward Settings: The Blood Transfusion Department has established a blood transfusion compatibility testing laboratory, an organ transplantation matching laboratory, and laboratories in the West District and North District.

Introduction to Diagnostic and Treatment Equipment: The department has 1 OrthoVisionMax fully automated blood group analyzer, 1 OrthoVision fully automated blood group analyzer, 1 Erytra fully automated blood group analyzer, 1 fully automated cell washer, 12 blood storage refrigerators, and 2 platelet storage devices. It has 1 Labculture biological safety cabinet, 1 GeneRotex96 fully automated nucleic acid extractor, 1 Nikon inverted fluorescence microscope, 1 Tanon gel imaging system, 1 T2-FUMEHOOD fume hood, 1 Luminex200 multifunctional flow cytometric bead array analyzer, and 1 BioTek microplate reader.

Department Diagnostic and Treatment Features:

The Blood Transfusion Department carries out component blood transfusion and has passed ISO15189 international medical laboratory accreditation. It issues more than 12,000 units of red blood cell blood products, more than 12,000 units of frozen plasma, and more than 4,000 therapeutic doses of apheresis platelets annually. It meets the medical emergency transfusion and therapeutic blood needs of clinical departments throughout the hospital 24 hours a day. It can provide blood products including: suspended red blood cells, leukocyte-reduced suspended red blood cells, washed red blood cells, leukocyte-reduced irradiated red blood cells, apheresis platelets, leukocyte-reduced apheresis platelets, fresh frozen plasma, ordinary frozen plasma, and rare blood group blood products such as Rh-negative blood products. It carries out the collection and storage of autologous blood for patients undergoing elective surgery and patients with rare blood groups, avoiding related infections caused by allogeneic blood transfusion.

The transplantation matching laboratory of the Blood Transfusion Department receives routine and emergency specimens from transplant patients year-round without holidays. It performs HLA typing for 700 cases annually, testing for panel-reactive antibodies for 1,600 cases, and lymphocytotoxicity tests for 250 cases. With precise testing, professional consultation, and a responsible attitude, the laboratory provides timely, accurate, and reliable test results for patients before, during, and after transplantation, and also provides a solid basis for the clinical evaluation of transplantation timing, transplantation outcomes, and long-term monitoring of transplanted organ survival.

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Department Scientific Research Achievements: In recent years, more than 20 academic papers have been published in SCI and core journals, and multiple books have been edited and co-edited.

Department Teaching: The department is the Beijing Blood Transfusion Technical Personnel Training Base. It undertakes pre-job training for blood transfusion technical personnel from blood transfusion departments in Beijing, as well as lectures and teaching and tutoring for visiting physicians from all over the country and in-department professional studies.

Department Honors: Important commendations and awards received by the department. Such as national- or provincial/ministerial- or municipal-level science and technology progress awards, being named XXXX, etc. (listed in reverse chronological order or by level of importance).

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Location within the Hospital: Fourth floor of the Surgical Building

Department Telephone: 010-84205488