Improvement of Execution Rate of Preoperative Autologous Blood Donation through Use of Thinner Blood Sampling Needle

Abstract

In our hospital, blood preparations are also controlled by the pharmacy department since they are considered as medicines. Preoperative autologous blood donation was started in 1998, but in the case that patients did not meet the blood donation conditions of the Japanese Red Cross Society or other requirements, the amount of blood needed could not be completely collected. For this purpose, we chose a thinner needle (18 G) for blood sampling and have been actively using it since 2001. As a result, the execution rate for autologous blood donation requests had risen to about 95 % in 2003. Further, instances of deviating from the clinical path decreased, and the rate of being able to supply the needs of an operation only through autologous blood donation increased.