JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Abstract

Various innovations have taken place in the field of transfusion medicine to enhance the blood safety but their implementation varies from developed countries to developing and under developing countries. Only selective in-novations are being followed in developing countries including India because of cost con-straints & lack of policy decisions.[1] The inno-vations which have taken place in last couple of decades are:
1. Blood donor policies, collection of blood, processing & storage
2. Laboratory testing technologies including infectious markers screening & Immuno- hae-matology (Blood group serology) [2]
3. Better Patient Blood Management