Transfusion Medicine

The Department of Transfusion Medicine was established in June 2006 and is responsible for supplying blood for clinical use throughout the hospital and for teaching and research in transfusion medicine. It currently has 9 employees, including 2 with master's degrees and 7 with bachelor's degrees. There is 1 holder of a senior professional title, 2 of associate senior titles, 1 of an intermediate title, and 5 technicians. Its operational space covers approximately 160 square meters and includes a blood processing room, blood storage room, blood issue room, blood group serology laboratory, records and archives room, duty room, office, and teaching and demonstration room. The department has complete laboratory equipment, advanced technology, and comprehensive capabilities, including an imported fully automated blood typing and crossmatching system, dedicated blood storage refrigerators, low-temperature and ultra-low-temperature refrigerators, a platelet agitation storage box, a plasma thawing system, a cold-chain monitoring system, and a clinical transfusion management system. The projects currently performed include: microcolumn gel crossmatching technology, prenatal and postnatal diagnosis of hemolytic disease of the newborn, screening and identification of irregular antibodies, direct and indirect antiglobulin tests, antibody titer testing, difficult crossmatching technology, identification of rare blood groups, and predeposit autologous blood transfusion technology. Blood components supplied for clinical use include: suspended red blood cells, leukocyte-depleted suspended red blood cells, washed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, frozen plasma, apheresis platelets, cryoprecipitated coagulation factors, and Rh(D)-negative blood. The current department director is a committee member of the Blood Management Branch of the Chinese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesiology, deputy chair of the Clinical Transfusion Branch of the Zhejiang Medical Association, an executive council member of the Zhejiang Transfusion Association, a committee member of the Zhejiang Clinical Transfusion Work Committee, and executive deputy director of the Hangzhou Clinical Blood Use Quality Management and Control Center. In recent years, staff of the Department of Transfusion Medicine have led three research projects on clinical blood use management and published dozens of papers in core journals.