Abstract
Objective: The COVID-19 epidemic has caused a significant global social and economic impact since December 2019. The objective of this study was to demonstrate the emergency response of a Chinese blood centre on maintaining both the safety and the sufficiency of blood supply during large, emerging, infectious epidemics.
Materials and methods: Early on in the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chengdu Blood Center developed strategies and implemented a series of measures, including enhanced recruitment efforts, addition of new donation deferral criteria and notification after donation, optimisation of donor experience, development and implementation of a new coronavirus nucleic acid detection technology platform for blood screening and screening all donations for SARS-CoV-2 RNA to maximumly protect the safety of blood supply during a time of unclear risk.
Results: Starting on February 20, the immediate satisfaction rate of blood product orders in Chengdu city’s clinical settings reached 100%, and there was no case of blood transfusion infection.
Conclusion: The recent experience during the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 reminded us that improvement in the areas of national and international collaborative programmes for dealing with blood availability and safety concerns during early stages of a disaster and regional and national mechanisms for timely communication with the general public on behalf of blood services should help to better prepare us for future disasters.
Keywords: COVID-19; blood center; emergency response.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, blood center, emergency response., 【초록키워드】 SARS-CoV-2, Infection, Epidemics, risk, nucleic acid, Measures, Nucleic acid detection, outbreak, International, implementation, SARS-CoV-2 RNA, recruitment, early stage, platform, mechanism, Satisfaction, Blood, Donor, New coronavirus, COVID-19 epidemic, disaster, criteria, donation, Blood Transfusion, blood supply, emergency response, notification, help, Chinese, early stages, center, clinical setting, material, National, blood product, starting, PROTECT, caused, addition, reached, 【제목키워드】 Blood, Emergency, Chinese,