Manual on the management, maintenance and use of blood cold chain equipment : Safe blood and blood products.

The blood cold chain is a series of interconnected activities involving equipment, personnel and processes that are critical for the safe storage and transportation of blood from collection to transfusion. Breaks in the cold chain happen for many reasons, such as equipment that does not meet standar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Organization, World Health
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Geneva : World Health Organization, 2005.
Subjects:
Blood.
Blood banks.
Refrigeration.
Refrigerators.
Pharmacy.
Medicine.
Blood
Blood Banks
Medicine
Sang.
Banques de sang.
Réfrigérateurs.
Médecine.
blood (animal material)
blood banks.
refrigerators.
medicines (material)
medicine (discipline)
Blood banks
Pharmacy
Refrigerators
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Storage and transportation of blood and blood components; 3 Blood storage equipment Refrigerators plasma freezers and platelet agitators; 4 Other blood cold chain devices; 5 Installing blood refrigerators and plasma freezers; 6 Organizing the blood cold chain; 7 Preventive maintenance care and repair of equipment; 8 Monitoring and evaluating the blood cold chain; 9 Guidelines for the development of a training programme; References; Annex 1 The use of Cfc in blood cold equipment.
  • Annex 2 Who Minimum performance specifi cations for blood cold chain equipmentAnnex 3 Basic operational framework for the blood cold chain.

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