An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India

AIM: To audit the fresh frozen plasma (FFP) usage with an insight into various guidelines. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The blood bank records pertaining to FFP usage in patients admitted in our medical college hospital were retrospectively reviewed for 2 years for usage of FFP in various departments and...

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Autores principales: Lingegowda, Jyothi B, Jeyakumar, Joshua Daniel, Muddegowda, Prakash H, Pitchai, R, Gopal, Niranjan, Sinha, Pammy
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013812
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.176232
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author Lingegowda, Jyothi B
Jeyakumar, Joshua Daniel
Muddegowda, Prakash H
Pitchai, R
Gopal, Niranjan
Sinha, Pammy
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description AIM: To audit the fresh frozen plasma (FFP) usage with an insight into various guidelines. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The blood bank records pertaining to FFP usage in patients admitted in our medical college hospital were retrospectively reviewed for 2 years for usage of FFP in various departments and evaluated for appropriateness of usage based on various guidelines, which included the 2013 guidelines published by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australasian Society for Blood Transfusion. RESULTS: A total of 785 units of FFPs were transfused to 207 patients during the study period. The appropriate usage was found to be 59.3%, and the usage was most appropriate in massive transfusions. CONCLUSION: This study highlights the nonadherence to guidelines among clinicians which is mainly due to lack of knowledge of appropriate usage.
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spelling pubmed-47857642016-03-24 An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India Lingegowda, Jyothi B Jeyakumar, Joshua Daniel Muddegowda, Prakash H Pitchai, R Gopal, Niranjan Sinha, Pammy J Lab Physicians Original Article AIM: To audit the fresh frozen plasma (FFP) usage with an insight into various guidelines. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The blood bank records pertaining to FFP usage in patients admitted in our medical college hospital were retrospectively reviewed for 2 years for usage of FFP in various departments and evaluated for appropriateness of usage based on various guidelines, which included the 2013 guidelines published by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australasian Society for Blood Transfusion. RESULTS: A total of 785 units of FFPs were transfused to 207 patients during the study period. The appropriate usage was found to be 59.3%, and the usage was most appropriate in massive transfusions. CONCLUSION: This study highlights the nonadherence to guidelines among clinicians which is mainly due to lack of knowledge of appropriate usage. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4785764/ /pubmed/27013812 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.176232 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Lingegowda, Jyothi B
Jeyakumar, Joshua Daniel
Muddegowda, Prakash H
Pitchai, R
Gopal, Niranjan
Sinha, Pammy
An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India
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title_full An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India
title_fullStr An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India
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title_short An Audit of Requests for Fresh Frozen Plasma in a Tertiary Care Center in South India
title_sort audit of requests for fresh frozen plasma in a tertiary care center in south india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013812
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.176232
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