Blood Bank
Blood Bank
About the Department/Division
Blood Transfusion Services are vital components of a health care facility. The Department of Transfusion Medicine aims to provide a safe and adequate supply of quality blood components in a timely manner. The blood centre in the Department collects whole blood. It processes them into 100% blood components which include packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelet concentrate, and cryoprecipitates and apheresis platelets with the facility to store at a suitable temperature for round-the-clock distribution. Safety of blood components is ensured by the stringent screening of blood donors and advanced testing for transfusion-transmitted infectious agents by Electrochemiluminescence technology. The Department is equipped with a well-established immunohematology laboratory for basic and advanced facilities and serves as a referral centre to provide transfusion support to multi-transfused patients. The Department is committed to prompt delivery of immunohematology-related diagnostic and various therapeutic apheresis services.
Message from Head of the Department/Division
Transfusion Medicine is a multidisciplinary branch of medicine that deals with all aspects of transfusion of blood and blood components, along with the characteristics of donor and patient hemovigilance. Transfusion Medicine is a specialty that aims to provide diagnostics like immunohematology and therapeutic modalities like plasma exchange, red cell exchange, intrauterine transfusions, etc. The Department of Transfusion Medicine's blood centre strives to ensure safe blood at the right time to the right patients. Patient blood management is essential to provide recipient autonomy and physician responsibility to take a competent decision regarding the prudent and rational use of blood components. The Department has dedicated team members with good co-ordination to fulfill the blood requirement of our Institute round the clock
Over the last few decades, the branch has witnessed tremendous growth. This discipline has expanded its horizons in many areas; Blood group genetics, platelet and granulocyte immunology, transplant immunology, molecular HLA typing, application of next-generation sequencing, and application of bioinformatics are the few significant areas in the field of Transfusion Medicine where rapid developments have taken place. Last but not least, stem cell biology and cellular therapy are another recently developed and most promising aspect in the field of Transfusion Medicine, which has shown significant promises and hopes in many disease conditions where no therapeutic modalities are available to date.
Achievements
Major Achievements
- Whole blood collection and Therapeutic Phlebotomy
- All types of blood components prepared for clinical use
- Well-equipped blood component separation unit started functioning in October 2018.
- M.D course in Transfusion Medicine started in July 2019.
- Rendering Therapeutic Apheresis services such as Red cell exchange, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, Therapeutic Leucapheresis, and Thrombocytapheresis.
- National-level participation for donor and recipient haemovigilance as part of the Haemovigilance program of India.
- The department is already established as the centre for advanced immunohematology.
| Sl No | Name | Designation | Department | Action | |
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| 1 |
 Dr. Somnath Mukherjee MBBS, MD |
Additional Professor | Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank | tranmed_somnath@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in | |
| 2 |
 Dr Satya Prakash MBBS, MD |
Assistant Professor | Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank | tranmed_prakash@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in | |
| 3 |
 Dr Ansuman Sahu MBBS, MD |
Associate Professor | Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank | tranmed_ansuman@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in | |
| 4 |
 Dr. Debasish Mishra MBBS, MD |
Associate Professor | Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank | tranmed_debasish@aiimsbhubaneswar.edu.in |
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