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JOURNAL CLUB PRESENTATION

COVID-19 pandemic and transfusion medicine:

The worldwide challenge and its implications

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Dr Ateeqah Binti Azman

22ND June 2021

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What is Corona Virus?

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Transfusion Medicine & possible pandemic drawbacks

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The challenges faced in blood safety

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However, up till today…

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The challenges faced in blood safety

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In general, challenges faced by blood banks around the world during an infectious pandemic are securing and protecting the blood supply.

Due to the nature of Covid-19 Virus (long incubation period and possibility of having asymptomatic carriers)…

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Impact on transfusion medicine worldwide?

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Impact faced by transfusion medicine in other countries

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Blood transfusion demand during this pandemic

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Measures taken by blood centres and hospitals in overcoming the emerging shortage of blood products

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  • Restrictive blood transfusion strategies and the implementation of patient blood management (PBM)

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  • Pre-operative blood conservation strategies

Other measures include…

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  • Active post-blood donation information gathering

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Positive results were shown in applying these methods in some countries…

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So, what about in PDN?

  • Are we facing the same problems too?
  • Lets take a look …

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Monthly supply of packed cells in 2019 & 2020

Year

2019 (unit)

2020 (unit)

Request

204071

196091

Supplied

189275

163957

(-13.4%)

% Supplied

92.7%

83.6%

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YES! PDN too is affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Drop in blood collection at static centres
  • Mobiles are being cancelled/postpned
  • Lesser blood products are supplied to hospitals
  • Demand of blood transfusion is still almost

the same

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Don’t worry, we’re on the right track!

  • Practising PBM and encouraging the use of other methods like oral suppliments and IV iron
  • Increasing awareness via social media
  • Handling Covid-19 samples in biosafety cabinets using

proper PPE’s

  • Active post-blood donation information gathering

(CUE cards and tracing blood products)

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In conclusion�

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  • SO DON’T WORRY PDN, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!

We’re all in this together !

THANK YOU!