Blood Centre
Transfusion medicine is a multidisciplinary science concerned with the proper use of blood or blood products in the treatment or prevention of disease. Optimal transfusion therapy requires knowledge of blood types and crossmatching procedures, blood sources and donor selection, blood collection and administration techniques, component therapy, transfusion reactions, and red blood cell (RBC) substitutes. Transfusion medicine plays a vital role in the supportive care of patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), with a spectrum of applications including donor peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection, cellular processing, granulocyte transfusions, donor lymphocyte infusions, and the evaluation of immunohematologic issues in ABO-mismatched and other transplant situations. Transfusion Medicine Continues to evolve in the Modern Era. The history of transfusion medicine parallels mankind's understanding of physiology, immunology, chemistry, infectious diseases, and advances in technology. What began as a belief that blood carries important healing properties has been validated by science. However, despite numerous advances over the centuries, blood remains an indispensable, life-giving force. Interestingly, some of the more important advances in blood banking/transfusion medicine have occurred as the result of wars.
Services & Facilities
- Latest Apheresis Technology Available in BMH (Spectra Optia Apheresis System)
- Donated blood is screened using advanced techniques to ensure high quality and safe components are received by the patients
Procedures
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Guillain Barre Syndrome /AIDP
- Good Pasture Syndrome/Anti GBM Disease
- Catastrophic Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy(CIDP)
- Hypergammaglobulinemia/Hyperviscosity syndrome
- Myasthenia Gravis
- TTP/Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
- Renal Transplant
- Leukocytapheresis
- Hyperleukocytosis
- Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)
- Autologous PRP preparation for alopecia, osteoarthritis, epicondylitis, tendinitis etc
- RBC Exchange
- Sickle Cell Disease (Acute Stroke, Acute Chest Syndrome,Stroke Prophylaxis, Recurrent pain crisis)
- Severe Malaria
- Lipoprotein/ LDL Apheresis
- Familial Hypercholesterolemia
- Peripheral Hematopoietic stem cell collection(PBSC)
- Non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Severe Aplastic Anemia
- Acute Leukemia, CML
- Cryopreservation of stem cells using advanced techniques
- Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI)
- Granulocytapheresis
- Severe Neutropenia unresponsive to antibiotics therapy
- Chronic granulomatous disease
- Single Donor Platelet / Single Donor Plasma Collection
- Thrombocytapheresis
- Hyperthrombocytosis (Myeloproliferative Neoplasm)