Practice of Emergency Plan for blood collection and supply during the COVID-19 epidemic / 中国输血杂志

ABSTRACT

【Objective】 To improve the local Emergency Plan for blood collection and supply by analyzing the situation of voluntary blood donation and blood supply during the COVID-19 epidemic in Jingmen. 【Methods】 Under the prevention and control of COVID-19, first-level response of the Emergency Plan for Blood Collection and Supply (referred to as Emergency Plan) in our city was initiated, and a series of measures had been taken to promote voluntary blood donation and blood deployment in order to ensure the clinical blood demand in hospitals. The collection and supply of platelets and whole blood during the COVID-19 epidemic period in 2020 were compared with the same period in the previous three years and the differences were analyzed by SPSS statistical software. 【Results】 114 therapeutic doses of platelets were collected in February 2020, accounting for 73.55% of the clinical supply. The units of whole blood collected in February and March, only accounted for 43.13% of clinical blood consumption, decreased by 84.75% and 66.38% respectively compared with the same period in 2019. During February to March 2020, 2 894 U of red blood cells and 44 therapeutic doses of platelets were transferred. The measures mentioned above ensured the platelet supply and clinical blood use, and blood collection and supply were gradually back to normal in April. 【Conclusion】 The Emergency Plan was further improved by analyzing and summarizing the deficiencies during its initiation and operation, and was incorporated into the municipal public health emergency support system to comprehensively improve the capacity of blood emergency supply.