safeguarding medicines for life

Blood and Transfusion medicine

The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that around 900 000 units of blood bags are discarded annually in Europe. Besides being almost an insult to the donors, there may be increasing shortages of quality-assured blood at local hospitals. Analysts backed by data points out that access to blood will be even more scarce in the future.

There is a large standard deviation in Europe concerning the handling and quality assurance of transfusion medicine. Several experts believe that most actors do not meet EU the requirements (ECD 2005 / 62EC) "the blood quality shall be guaranteed all the way from the donor to recipient". This directive was amended and tightened in 2016 with effect from 2018 onwards.

With years of experience in the Transfusion medicine sector we deliver the right system of hardware and software, to support members of staff in various blood-transfusion demanding areas, bloodbanks and hospitals in order to ensure that the blood they need is safe to use regardless of the complexity in the handling.

Our cloud-based portal is configured down to an organization level to the exact cold-chain specifications of the blood product. We monitor all types of blood products. Whole blood, erythrocytes, platelets and plasma.
By using a handheld device, eg a mobile phone - or a generic bar-code reader - the blood bag is paired to the tracer and the monitoring can begin.
As the blood product is exposed to time and temperature, the tracer system communicates with the cloud in real time and constantly calculates the remaning shelf-life of the blood product.
Based on the specification of the product the tracer will give a visual indication with green or red light which tells if blood product is safe to use. In real time.
At any point of time the cloudbased portal offers in depth and real time analytical possibilities of the monitored blood products.

Timely implementation of an item level tracing system for our hospital blood bank, which distributes about 13’000 RBCs per year. This helped us to replace a system where the support ended.

Knowing the temperature of the packed red blood cells from the moment they were sent to the blood bank has allowed us to safely recover many bags of blood.

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It would be the easiest thing if blood was always stored and transported at the same temperature.
Then you would know that blood stored at 4°C would be valid for 35 or 42 days - 1008 hours in the latter case.

But the reality is that the blood will be exposed to many different temperatures during its lifetime.
The QTA Tracer recalculates the "remaining shelf-life" in real-time, - adjust the expiration date - for the blood at each log.

So if the tracer is configuredset to log every third minute, the expiration date will be adjusted every third minute.
You don't have to guess how much life has been lost when the blood has been exposed to 14°C for two hours.
The Tracer does that for you with accuracy, in real-time.

Blood and Transfusion medicine

One blood bag saves up to three lives*

One blood bag saves up to three lives*

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How the QTA Tracer continuously calculates Shelf-life in real time