Blood Bank: Donor register, screening, cross-matching, issue and transfusion tracking

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Blood Bank in the Bridge HMS Suite: Donor register, screening, cross-matching, issue and transfusion tracking

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78 items in 14 areas, every one shipping with the app today.

Donor Registration & Records
- Donor master registryRegister blood donors with full demographics, contact details, national ID, address and clinical notes in a dedicated donor record.
- Auto donor card numberingEvery donor gets a unique auto-generated donor card number (DNR/year/000001) enforced unique at database level.
- Donor type classificationClassify donors as voluntary, family/replacement or autologous to match transfusion-service donor policies.
- Blood group & Rhesus captureRecord ABO blood group with Rhesus factor auto-derived from the group selection.
- Automatic age computation & eligibility guardAge is computed from date of birth and a constraint blocks non-autologous donors outside the 18-65 year range.
- Deferral status trackingFlag donors as eligible, temporarily deferred or permanently deferred with reason and 'deferred until' date.
Donation Collection
- Donation event recordsCapture each blood collection event with unique auto-numbered bag ID linked to donor and session.
- Pre-donation vitals captureRecord blood pressure, hemoglobin, weight, pulse and temperature before collection.
- Hemoglobin minimum enforcementCompletion is blocked when hemoglobin falls below 12.5 g/dL for men or 12.0 for women.
- Pre-screening pass gateA donation cannot be completed until pre-screening is explicitly marked as passed.
- Multiple donation typesSupport whole blood, plasma apheresis, platelet apheresis and double-red-cell collections.
- Bag & anticoagulant selectionChoose bag configuration (single/double/triple/quad) and anticoagulant (CPD, CPDA-1, SAGM) per collection.
TTI Screening & Release
- Transfusion-transmissible infection panelScreen every donation for HIV, HBV (HBsAg), HCV, syphilis and malaria with per-marker results.
- Per-test methodology captureRecord the test method (rapid, ELISA, CMIA/CLIA, NAT) used for each infection marker.
- ABO/Rh confirmationConfirm ABO grouping and Rhesus typing with confirmed/discrepant results.
- Automatic releasability calculationSystem computes 'all negative' and 'releasable' flags, requiring all TTI negative plus confirmed ABO/Rh.
- Unique lab reference numberingEach screening gets an auto-generated unique lab reference and is limited to one per donation.
- Mark-passed auto-releases stockPassing screening moves all quarantined units from that donation to available inventory automatically.
Blood Product Inventory
- Individual unit trackingEvery blood product unit is tracked separately with a unique auto-generated unit code.
- Six product typesManage whole blood, packed red cells, leukoreduced red cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate.
- Type-specific expiry computationExpiry date is auto-calculated from product type and anticoagulant (e.g. 35 days CPDA-1, 5 days platelets, 365 days plasma).
- Days-to-expiry indicatorLive countdown of days remaining before each unit expires.
- Storage temperature guidanceEach unit displays its required storage temperature range based on product type.
- Storage location trackingRecord the physical fridge/freezer location of each unit.
Clinical Request Workflow
- Ward blood requestClinicians raise blood requests for a patient with auto-numbered reference and requesting doctor defaulted to the current user's staff record.
- Urgency levelsClassify requests as routine, urgent, STAT or MCI/emergency.
- ICD-10 indicationAttach a clinical indication text and ICD-10 diagnosis code to justify the transfusion.
- Patient blood profileRecord known patient blood group, Rh, current Hb and target Hb on the request.
- Special product requirementsFlag needs for irradiated, leukoreduced, washed or CMV-negative products and antibody screening.
- Request state machineRequests progress through draft, sent, crossmatching, crossmatched, issued, transfused and canceled states, some auto-advanced downstream.
Crossmatch & Compatibility
- Crossmatch recordsCreate compatibility tests linking a request and patient to candidate donor units.
- Per-unit compatibility resultsRecord a compatibility line per candidate unit (compatible, major/minor incompatibility, weak positive).
- ABO/Rh & antibody screen captureLog overall ABO and Rh compatibility plus antibody screen result on the crossmatch.
- Crossmatch methodologyRecord the technique used: saline/immediate spin, indirect antiglobulin, gel card or solid phase.
- Tested-by / verified-by dual sign-offCapture both the technologist who tested and the staff who verified the crossmatch.
- 72-hour validity windowValid-until is auto-computed as 72 hours from the crossmatch time per transfusion standards.
Issue, Transfusion & Cold-Chain
- Unit issue recordsIssue reserved units against a crossmatch with auto-numbered reference, capturing collector and issuer.
- Cold-chain temperature gateIssuing blocks with a cold-chain-breach error if pickup temperature reaches or exceeds 10 C.
- 4-hour return-due timerReturn-due time is auto-set to 4 hours after issue for unused-unit return control.
- Return & expired-in-use handlingReturn an unused unit back to available, or mark it expired-in-use to discard it.
- Transfusion recordsDocument bedside administration of an issued unit to a patient with auto-numbered reference.
- Two-nurse sign-offCapture both the administering nurse and a witness nurse for bedside safety checks.
Haemovigilance & Reactions
- Transfusion reaction registerLog adverse transfusion reactions with auto-numbered reference linked to transfusion, patient and unit.
- Severity gradingGrade reactions mild through moderate, severe, life-threatening or fatal.
- Reaction categorizationClassify by category (FNHTR, allergic/anaphylactic, acute/delayed hemolytic, TACO, TRALI, bacterial, GVHD etc.).
- Clinical documentation fieldsRecord symptoms, vital-sign changes, action taken and whether the transfusion was stopped.
- Investigation workflowTrack lab sample return, repeat ABO confirmation and reviewer with open/investigating/closed states.
- Root-cause & prevention analysisCapture rich-text root cause analysis and prevention recommendations plus a causality classification.
Blood Bank
- Stock Dashboard
- Available Units
- Donors
- Donations
- Screening Results
- Requests
- Crossmatch Worklist
- Issues
- Transfusions
- Reactions Register
- Donor Sessions
Configuration
- Settings
- Deferral Reasons
Documents it prints
- Donor Card
- Crossmatch Report
- Transfusion Reaction Form
- Session Report
- Daily Blood Stock Report
- Transfusion Record
- Blood Request Form
It runs by itself
- Blood Bank: Expire stale unitsRuns daily
- Blood Bank: Alert expiring units (48h)Runs daily
- Blood Bank: Check expiring crossmatchesRuns every 60 minutes
- Blood Bank: Recall eligible donorsRuns daily
Roles it ships
- Blood Bank / User
- Blood Bank / Technician
- Blood Bank / Screener
- Blood Bank / Manager
Guided assistants
- Blood Bank Demo Loader
- Config Settings

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Blood Bank shares one database with the rest of the Bridge HMS Suite and BridgeERP: these are the apps it already talks to, with nothing to buy in between.