*Dept. of Pathology, S.S Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davangere, Karnataka, -577 005
**Dept. of Pathology, SS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davangere, Karnataka, -577 005
***Dept. of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, SS Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Davangere, Karnataka-577 005
1Address for correspondence: Assistant professor, Dept. of Pathology, S.S. Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Davangere, Karnataka-577 005 Email: drmallikarjuna@yahoo.com Mobile: 09964017330.
Ten to fifteen percent of all transfusions are used in patients with traumatic injury. By understanding the patterns of blood usage in these patients, routine resource allocation, planning for mass casualty situations, designing research and optimizing triage can be usefully informed.
To analyze the transfusion practices in trauma patients in a tertiary care hospital and to emphasize the rationale behind modern and future transfusion strategies.
The study reports were compared with Blood Bank registry records. The data collected include patients’ age, sex, departments to which the injured patients were admitted. Hemoglobin levels during admission and number of blood and blood components used in various departments were analyzed.
Fifty two patients with acute trauma were admitted to a tertiary care hospital and received 8.32% of total transfusion during the study period. The mean age of these patients was 38.2 years and 93.38% of them were male. The most common blood group among the patients was B positive (36.54%). Among the admitted patients 59.61% were from Orthopedics, 23.07% from Neurosurgery, 13.46% were from General Surgery and 1.94% each from the cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (CVTS) and maxillofacial surgery departments. Patients admitted to orthopedic department received the maximum number of transfusions (43.94%) and packed red cell was the most frequently used blood component (61.46%).
Hemorrhage and anemia is common in critically injured trauma patients and use of appropriate blood component can be life saving.
Trauma, blood components, transfusion
