Evaluation of four bedside test systems for card performance, handling and safety

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-36

  Giebel, F ^a   Picker, S M ^a   Gathof, B S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

ABO compatibility testing; Bedside test; Blood transfusion; Safety

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 39149103033     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111385     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Linden JV, Wagner K, Voytovich AE, Sheehan J. Transfusion errors in New York State: an analysis of 10 years' experience. Transfusion 2000;40:1207-1213.
2. Müller Eckhard C, Kiefel V: Transfusionsmedizin, 3. Aufl. Heidelberg, Springer, 2003, p 330.
3. Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesärztekammer und des Paul-Ehrlich-Institutes: Richtlinien zur Gewinnung von Blut und Blutbestandteilen und zur Anwendung von Blutprodukten (Hämotherapie). Köln, Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, 2005.
4. Bundesärztekammer: Leitlinien zur Therapie mit Blutkomponenten und Plasmaderivaten, 2. Aufl. Köln, Deutscher Ärzteverlag, 2003.
5. Le Pennec PY, Rouger P: Technical methods for the ultimate verification at the patient's bedside. Rev Fr Transfus Hemibiol 1991;34:167-171.
6. Noizat-Pirenne F, Le Pennec PY, Lascaux JM, Fraval D, Zaoui F, Rouger P: La verification ultime au lit du malade: resultats d'une enquete nationale sur les reactifs et dispositifs utilises en France. Transfus Clin Biol 1998;5:392-396.
7. Perrotta PL, Snyder EL: Non-infectious complications of transfusion therapy. Blood Rev 2001;15:69-83.
8. Ibojie J, Urbaniak SJ: Comparing near misses with actual mistransfusion events: a more accurate reflection of transfusion errors. Br J Haematol 2000;108:458-460.
9. Krombach J, Kampe S, Gathof BS, Diefenbach C, Kasper SM: Human error. The persisting risk of blood transfusion. A report of life cases. Anesth Analg 2002:94:154-156.
10. Shulman IA, Downes KA, Sazama K, Maffei LM: Pretransfusion compatibility testing for red blood cell administration. Curr Opin Hematol 2001;8:397-404.
11. Linden JV: Errors in transfusion medicine. Scope of the problem. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1999;123:563-565.
12. Linden JV, Paul B, Dressler KP: A report of 104 transfusion errors in New York State. Transfusion 1992;32:601-606.
13. Rouger P, Le Pennec PY, Noizat-Pirenne F: Immunologic risk analysis of blood transfusion: 1991-98 (in France). Transfus Clin Biol 2000;7:9-14.
14. Ahrens N, Pruss A, Kiesewetter H, Salama A: Failure of bedside ABO testing is still the moist common cause of incorrect blood transfusion in the barcode era. Transfus Apher Sci 2005;33:25-29.
15. Caspari G, Alpen U, Greinacher A: The risk of transfusion to the wrong patient in Germany. Transfusion 2002;42:1238-1239.
16. Migeot V, Ingrand I, Salmi LR, Ingrand P: Reliability of bedside ABO testing before transfusion. Transfusion 2002;42:1348-1355.
17. Geisen HP, Baumgartner E: ABO crossmatching - the bedside test - with a new system. Anaesth Intensivther Notfallmed 1980;15:166-168.
18. Meinshausen E, Wendt M: Introduction of a new card for the 'bedside test'. Anaesthesist 1989;38:555-557.
19. Braun-Oberdieck B: Erfahrungen mit 'Bedside-Cards' in der Immunhämatologie. mta Fachzeitschrift der Technischen Assistenten in der Medizin 1988;1.
20. Dujardin PP, Salmi LR, Ingrand P: Errors in interpreting the pretransfusion bedside compatibility test: an experimental study. Vox Sang 2000;78:37-43.
21. Ingrand P, Surer-Pierres N, Houssay D, Salmi LR: Reliability of the pretransfusion bedside compatibility test: association with transfusion practice and training. Transfusion 1998;38:1030-1036.
22. Uthemann H, Weber M: Securing the ABO identity by serafol before blood transfusions. Anaesthesist 1982;31:204-205.
23. Rachel JM, Plapp FV: Bedside blood grouping. Med Lab Sci 1990;47:330-336.
24. Saillour- Glenisson F, Tricaut S, Mathoulin-Pellissier S, Bouchon B, Galperine I, Fialon P, Salmi LR: Factors associated with nurses' poor knowledge and practice of transfusion safety procedures in Aquitaine, France. Int J Qual Health Care 2002;14:25-32.
25. Murphy MF, Casbard AC, Ballard S, Shulman IA, Heddle N, Aubuchon JP, Wendel S, Thomson A, Hervig T, Downes K, Carey PM, Dzik WH: Prevention of bedside errors in transfusion medicine (PROBE-TM) study: a cluster-randomized, matched-paired clinical areas trial of a simple intervention to reduce errors in the pretransfusion bedside check. Transfusion 2007;47:771-780.