Transfusion Medicine

The Department of Transfusion Medicine of Peking University International Hospital was established in December 2014 and is located on the second floor of the Outpatient Building. The department currently has 1 physician and 8 medical technologists. The department has a usable area of more than 400 square meters and includes various functional rooms: a blood storage room, blood crossmatching room, blood issue room, difficult blood group room, and transfusion consultation room. The Department of Transfusion Medicine is a specialized department integrating the storage, testing, and distribution of blood products; autologous blood collection and storage; and clinical blood therapy. The department is equipped with a fully automated crossmatching and blood group analyzer, dedicated blood storage refrigerators, low-temperature blood storage cabinets, a platelet agitator, a low-temperature workbench, a frozen plasma thawing device, and other equipment. The main services provided by the department include: ABO and Rh blood group identification, irregular antibody screening, transfusion compatibility testing, direct antiglobulin testing, Rh five-antigen phenotype-matched transfusion, blood group antibody titer testing, autologous transfusion, screening for hemolytic disease of the newborn, difficult crossmatching, transfusion therapy and consultation; PRP services will be introduced soon. The department provides safe and timely clinical blood services to clinical departments 24 hours a day and has also mastered the entire technical process of collecting, aliquoting, cryopreserving, and thawing apheresis stem cells.