Manual on the Management, Maintenance and Use of Blood Cold Chain Equipment
Author | : World Health Organization |
Publisher | : World Health Organization |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2005-12-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789241546737 |
ISBN-13 | : 9241546735 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The blood cold chain is a series of interconnected activities involving equipment, personnel and processes critical for the safe storage and transportation of blood from collection to transfusion. This publication contains information in relation to: storage and transportation of blood and blood components; blood storage equipment, relating to refrigerators, plasma freezers and platelet agitators; other blood cold chain devices; equipment installation; organising the cold blood chain; preventative maintenance, care and repair of equipment; monitoring and evaluation; and guidelines for the development of training programmes.