Haydarpaşa Numune Training and Research
Hospital Blood Center has been in the status of Transfusion Center since 2015
and since then it supplies blood needs from the Northern Red Sea Blood Center
of the Turkish Red Crescent. The blood center of your hospital was established
in 1947, in the historic chief physician's office, at the place where the
registry procedures are now conducted. First responsible physician Dr. Muzaffer
Aksoy. In 1963, he moved to the current clinic of children's clinic, and from
1971 to 2008 he served as a branch of the pathology laboratory. Since 2008, has
been moved to the newly constructed outpatient clinic.
Blood collection and component separation applications continue at our center
when the blood supply is not met by the Red Blood Regional Blood Center. 18,000
units of blood products are used annually for all other units, especially in
internal medicine and surgery clinics. 13000 units of these products are
erythrocyte suspension.
The donorage field which was started to be done in 1999 in our blood center,
has been maintained till day and successful results have been obtained. The use
and indications of the components were made into habit with the trainings made
in our hospital and the usage rate of erythrocyte suspension reached to 100%.
Our blood center is also one of the three blood centers in Istanbul, which
provides certification training under the "Blood Banking and Transfusion
Medicine Education Certificate Program" organized by the Ministry of
Health.
OUR SERVICES GIVEN
* Whole blood collection and separation into
components (erythrocyte, fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate - when the
Regional Blood Center does not meet)
* Obtaining thrombocytes by apheresis method
* Obtaining erythrocyte by apheresis method
* Erythrocyte washing
- RUNNING TESTS
* Blood grouping
* Rhsubgrup assignment
* Antibody screening
* Antibody identification
* Antibody titration
* Crossmatch (cross comparison)
* Direct coombs
* Cold agglutination
* Microbiological screening tests (HBsAg, AntiHCV,
AntiHIV, Syphilis)
* Hemogram (pre-donation)
Our blood center is started with internal
controls to study the tests, and our blood center belongs to the NEQAS external
quality control program.
Our Blood Center provides 24 hours of continuous service and the transfusion
service lasts 24 hours and the donation process is only done during working
hours.
All services in the blood center are carried out by 1 doctor in charge of blood
center, 2 biologists, 5 laboratory technicians, 1 nurse and 2 secretaries.