The Department of Blood Transfusion, established on the foundation of the former blood bank of The Second Norman Bethune Hospital of Jilin University, was first founded in 1949. It currently employs 9 professional technicians, including 1 with associate senior title, 4 with intermediate titles, and 4 with junior titles; 2 hold postgraduate degrees, 5 hold bachelor's degrees, and 2 hold associate degrees; among them, 3 are physicians, 4 are technicians, and 2 are nursing staff. Its primary functions include ensuring the implementation of blood storage, cross-matching, and scientific and rational blood usage measures. It is now a member unit of the Provincial Blood Transfusion Association under the Chinese Society of Blood Transfusion.
The Department of Blood Transfusion has well-established standard operating procedures and comprehensive quality management standards, along with management systems covering all aspects of its work. It is responsible for applying for clinical blood usage plans, reviewing clinical blood requests, and developing evaluation standards for clinical blood transfusion quality control and management. It undertakes clinical transfusion consultations and guidance, difficult case discussions, and individual case evaluations; provides clinical transfusion业务 guidance, personnel training, and academic exchanges; promotes collaborative research on blood transfusion-related topics, as well as new technologies and practices; oversees clinical blood transfusion quality control and management tasks; fulfills tasks assigned by health administrative departments; maintains and queries blood transfusion archives; and offers clinical blood transfusion consultation services. The department was the first in the province to introduce several leading technologies, such as plasma exchange, card-based blood typing, card-based anti-human globulin cross-matching, leukocyte filtration of blood products, and irradiation of blood products, ensuring that clinical blood transfusion is "safe, timely, and effective."
The department currently features functional areas including a blood storage room, cross-matching room, laboratory, blood issuance room, and transfusion therapy room. Key equipment includes: Sanyo blood storage refrigerators (Japan), Haier blood storage refrigerators, platelet storage incubators, circulating plasma thawers, WADiana automated cross-matching systems, semi-automatic blood typing and cross-matching systems, card-based blood typing systems, BASO dedicated centrifuges, Olympus microscopes, and specialized blood transport boxes. The department has also installed a cold chain temperature control system and offers therapeutic transfusion techniques such as autologous blood transfusion and plasma exchange.
The department emphasizes talent development, having sent staff for training at institutions such as Beijing 301 Hospital and the Shanghai Blood Center, as well as for academic exchanges in Beijing, Shanghai, and other locations. Meanwhile, through active internal academic lectures, it continuously improves staff professional skills, addresses challenging issues in blood transfusion work, and enhances the ability to guide clinical scientific and rational blood usage. Through continuous learning, the department has improved工作效率 in clinical collaboration, particularly in surgeries for arterial aneurysms, major cardiovascular procedures, and rescuing patients with various types of accidental massive bleeding, playing a proactive role and strongly ensuring clinical transfusion safety.
In clinical blood transfusion work, the department actively promotes knowledge about component blood transfusion, with the proportion of component transfusion reaching over 98%. It has achieved significant results in the research and promotion of new clinical blood transfusion technologies. Transfusion safety is the eternal theme of blood transfusion work. To ensure the safety of blood recipients, reduce the transmission of bloodborne infectious diseases, and minimize adverse transfusion reactions, we vigorously promote scientific and rational transfusion methods: autologous blood transfusion and component blood transfusion.
We adhere to the principles: patient-centered, quality as life, service as our purpose, firmly establishing the concept of "safety first, serving clinical practice," ensuring that clinical blood usage is sufficient, safe, timely, and effective, safeguarding patients' health and life safety.
