Transfusion Medicine Overview

GKNM Hospital's Department of Transfusion Medicine offers patients in need of Therapeutic Apheresis, Immunohaematology work diagnostics, and blood component therapy round-the-clock facilities and comprehensive solutions.

We provide high-quality patient care and hospital services in support of clinical research that contributes to our knowledge and practice of transfusion medicine and related technologies, and to provide advanced training in transfusion medicine in India.

Treatment & Procedures

Therapeutic Apheresis
Blood Donor Services
Component Preparation facility
Immunohematology Laboratory
Infectious disease screening Laboratory

Therapeutic Apheresis

Plasma Exchange
Peripheral stem cell collection
Red cell Exchange
LDL Apheresis
Immunoadsorption using Specific Columns in ABO incompatible solid organ transplants.

The therapeutic use of apheresis technology is done to remove disease causing substances or blood components and providing supportive and therapeutic solutions using state of the art apheresis equipment. We are involved in advances in transfusion medicine.

Technology & Infrastructure Achievements

Achievements
Infrastructure & Technology

Achievements:

Transfusion support given for Alloimmunized/Auto immune patients.
Transfusion support given for Organ transplantation and major surgeries, ABO Incompatible liver transplantation.
Facilities available for Therapeutic Apheresis, Immunoadsorption, Autologous Peripheral blood stem cell collection, cryopreservation storage.
100% component separation.
100% NAT tested blood components.
Advanced Ortho Vision Shift fully automated for blood grouping & Typing.

Infrastructure & Technology

At the Department of Transfusion Medicine at GKNM Hospital, some of the infrastructure and technology employed by the Department of Transfusion Medicine are:

Well equipped with automated blood collection monitors for whole blood collection and state of the art Apheresis technology for plateletpheresis using Optia spectra (To perform Therapeutic Apheresis and Peripheral blood Stem cell collection.) & Trima (To perform Plateletpheresis & Plasmapheresis)
Fully automated Ortho Vision Shift Analyser using latest technology for Blood Grouping & Typing, crossmatching and Antibody screen
100% component separation facility by Refrigerated centrifuge, automated component separators.
Blood Bank Refrigerators, Deep freezers and platelet agitators with appropriate temperature to store various components.
NAT testing based on real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology.