State-of-the-art Blood Bank

 

NIBD hospital comprises of 85 beds, including facilities of Bone Marrow Transplant, Chemotherapies, adult and pediatric day care unit, emergency services, well equipped modern diagnostic laboratory & Blood Bank with apharies unit open 24 hrs.

 

Excellence

 

NIBD Blood bank provides all Blood products, available round the clock ( 24/7 ) by encouraging volunteer/exchange, blood donation with international Quality control processes and services.

 

Blood Products

 

Avoid use of Whole Blood, use normal saline for volume replacement.

In situation of Acute bleeding, symptomatic anemia,

(Hb < 6g/d) to increase

oxygen capacity and red

cell mass, Myocardial

ischemia

 

Platelet concentrate

 

Available in 2 forms

 

Random donor platelets

Single donor platelets ( Mega unit of platelets )

 

Bleeding due to thrombocytopenia or abnormal platelet function disorder, chemotherapy induced thromocytopenia. In case of major surgery when platelet count < 50,000. Bone marrow failure e.g

 

In Aplastic anemia, Massive, transfusion, Intraoperatively micro vascular bleeding.

 

Fresh FrozenPlasma (FFP)

 

Multiple factor deficiencies including liver disease, urgent reversal of wafarin treatment, If appropriate factor concentrates are not available.

 

Cryoprecipitate: (CP)

 

Haemophilia ‘‘A’’, Von Willebrand disease, Hypofibrinogenemia, and Factor XIII deficiency.

 

Cryosupernatant: (C/S)

 

Haemophilia ‘‘B’’, Plasma exchange in TTP.

 

Fibrin glue

 

In external bleeding e.g in bleeding gums, open wounds, surgeries in bleeding patients.

 

Tests

 

Blood grouping

Screening of all blood products for HBsAg. Anti HCV, Anti HIV

1 & 2, VDRL, Malarial parasites.

Cross matching

Solving blood group and cross-matching discrepancies

Antibody Titre

Red cell phenotyping

Rh genotyping/phenotyping

 

Services

 

Daycare facilities for Transfusion of all Blood Products

Apherasis unit

Provode indoor and outdoor facilities for therapeutic plasmapherasis and plasma exchange, leukopherasis, peripheral Blood & Bone Marrow Stem cells collection

Exchange transfusion for Hemolytic Disease of Newborn (HDN), Sickle cell disease

 

Sample requirement

 

Complete filled request including patient history, Name, Lab/Hospital medical record number, age and Gender.

Properly labeled sample tubes Red top (plain tube) (serum 5cc) and purple top (EDTA 2 cc) for red cells.