ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: The aim of our study is to determine maximum surgical blood order schedule (MSBOS) in elective surgery through analyzing usage of blood products such as packed red cells and whole blood at Dankook University Hospital. We would like to establish the guidelines for effective utilization of blood products by introducing MSBOS to our hospital. METHODS: We calculated average amount of transfused blood for each elective surgery based on the discharge records of patients from January 1997 to December 1998 at Dankook University Hospital. Only those operations performed more than 5 times were included in this study. Average number of transfused units per patient of each operation was selected for MSBOS. RESULTS: For two years, the total number of surgery was 15,497 and the number of transfused operations was 1,682 (10.85%). Operation groups transfused below 10% was 77.3% of all 199 operation groups. The number of operation groups whose average of transfused blood was below 0.5 units was 80.3%. Type and screen (T&S) was recommended in 140 (70.4%) of all the operation groups. Of total groups MSBOS of 2 units was estimated in 4 groups (2.0%), of 3 in 14 groups (7.0%), 4 of 4 groups (2.0%), 5 of 2 groups (1.0%), 6 of 4 groups (2.0%), 7 of 7 groups (3.5%), and 8 in 2 groups (1.0%), respectively. CONCLUSION: We established MSBOS through the previous transfusion data of surgical operations over two years. To enforce MSBOS is needed for better medical services, which would decrease blood disuse and medical cost.