Abstract

ESCORIZA-MARTINEZ, Tatiana; ABREU-LEDON, René; OLIVERA-CUADRA, Damaris  and  BORGES-MORELL, Eduardo. Application of modal analysis of failures and effects in the process of total blood donation. Rev Cubana Hematol Inmunol Hemoter [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.4, pp.328-340. ISSN 0864-0289.

The constant search of measures to guarantee the quality and the safe of blood and hemocomponents is a need to achieve the transfusion safe. Although the aim of the good practices of production was to decrease the risks to obtain pure, safe and effective products, it is necessary its fulfillment with tools allowing to prevent the potential failures and to detect such risks. That is the case of the application of the Modal Analysis of Failures and Effects in the Provincial Blood Bank of Villa Clara where the potential failures in the process of total blood donation were identified and assessed, allowing to characterize it, to identify its critical variables, to lay the foundations to propose new critical points of control and to establish the actions necessary to reduce or to eliminate the failures detected. All this contributed to the satisfaction of hospital transfusion services and of patients.

Keywords : Blood bank; total blood donation; quality securing; modal analysis of failures and effects.

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