The Blood Transfusion Department officially became an independent first-level department in 1996. It currently has a staff of 17, including 5 with master's degrees and 11 with bachelor's degrees, covering medical, technical, and nursing professions. Among them, there is 1 senior professional, 3 intermediate professionals, and 12 junior professionals.
The department is equipped with specialized facilities such as a blood matching room, blood storage room, blood dispensing room, leukoreduction room, and transfusion therapy room. It is also furnished with dedicated equipment including an automated blood grouping and cross-matching analyzer, a thromboelastography instrument, a solid-phase microplate centrifuge, a gel card centrifuge, a blood cell separator, a -80°C ultra-low temperature freezer, and 15 various blood product storage units. Currently, the department offers clinical transfusion-related testing services, such as ABO forward and reverse typing, Rh phenotyping, irregular antibody screening, cross-matching, platelet antibody testing, platelet matching, and thromboelastography.
The services provided by the Blood Transfusion Department include:
① 24-hour clinical blood supply services;
② Pre-transfusion compatibility testing;
③ Participation in multidisciplinary discussions for complex cases and clinical consultations for transfusion cases;
④ Implementation of perioperative autologous transfusion;
⑤ Guidance and supervision of scientific and rational blood use in clinical practice;
⑥ Stem cell collection, abnormal cell removal, and therapeutic plasma exchange.
The Blood Transfusion Department has evolved into a specialized clinical transfusion unit integrating multiple functions, including clinical blood storage and supply, blood usage management, transfusion testing, and transfusion therapy.