Transfusion Medicine

The Transfusion Department of the First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University was established in 1957 under the laboratory department and became independent in January 2005. It combines testing, treatment, blood supply, teaching and research, provides blood for hospital operations, treatment and emergency care 24 hours a day, and manages clinical blood use under the hospital's blood management committee. Its work includes blood ordering and storage, evaluation of transfusion benefits and risks, and laboratory investigation and monitoring of transfusion reactions.

The hospital reports nine staff: one associate chief technologist, three senior technologists and five technologists; five hold master's degrees and four undergraduate degrees. Equipment includes automated crossmatching, temperature-controlled plasma thawing, blood and platelet storage, centrifuges and thromboelastography. The department teaches transfusion medicine, became a transfusion training base in 2024, and researches blood management, sensors and materials. The hospital reports more than 20 papers and two utility-model patents in the five-year period described.

Tests and services include ABO forward and reverse grouping, Rh C/E matching, crossmatching by saline, polybrene and gel methods, irregular and platelet antibody screening, thromboelastography, investigation and crossmatching of difficult blood groups, direct antiglobulin testing, prenatal parental blood-group antibody titers, preoperative autologous blood storage, testing for neonatal hemolytic disease and platelet serological matching. Location: inpatient building 1, floor 1; telephone: 0351-4639694.