Automation in blood transfusion

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Fundamentals in Automation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages XIII-XIII

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   2. Some Aspects of System Analysis and System Design

      • J. S. Duisterhout

      Pages 1-7

   3. The Role of Automatic Identification Methods and Techniques in Blood Transfusion

      • E. Brodheim

      Pages 9-21

   4. Criteria for Improving Safety and Efficacy

      • A. J. Grindon

      Pages 23-31

   5. Automation, Privacy Protection and the Law

      • J. K. M. Gevers

      Pages 33-39

   6. The Role of Automation in Education

      • B. A. Myhre

      Pages 41-47

3. Automation and the Laboratory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1

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   2. Donor Data Base Systems: Transvie, a Microcircuit Card Application in Blood Transfusion and Public Health

      • J. P. Saleun, J. Bryckaert, C. Th. Smit Sibinga

      Pages 55-62

   3. Use of PC’s and PC Networks

      • A. J. W. Koot

      Pages 63-70

   4. An Overview of Robotics and their Application in the Blood Bank

      • L. I. Friedman, J. E. Brennan

      Pages 71-76

   5. Routine Blood Group Serology: Seroscan, a Fully Automated System

      • M. Delamaire, P. Blanchet, F. Durand, B. Genetet

      Pages 77-81

   6. Quality Assurance by Knowledge-Based Techniques

      • T. L. Groth

      Pages 83-90

   7. Defining the Information Flow in the Transfusion-Microbiology Laboratory

      • J. A. J. Barbara

      Pages 91-96

4. Automation in Component Production

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N2-N2

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   2. Standardization Procedures Required by Automation of Blood Component Preparation

      • H. A. Loos

      Pages 105-107

   3. Automatic Separation of Blood Components in a New Bag System

      • V. Kretschmer, K. Khan-Bluoki, E. Biermann, D. Söhngen, R. Eckle

      Pages 109-119

   4. Mathematic Modeling for Apheresis Procedures; Advantages and Limitations

      • J. P. Hester, J. Ventura

      Pages 121-127

   5. Automation in Apheresis

      • D. W. Schoendorfer

      Pages 129-146

   6. Evaluation of a Microprocessor Controlled Centrifuge that Allows Operation with Unbalanced Loads

      • J. Miripol

      Pages 147-151

With this symposium the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe affirms its well known reputation as an organizer of symposia of high standard and quality. Several important aspects of bloodbanking have been discussed in the past. The Blood Bank here is a specialist in its own field. Administrative processes in respect of the donor, information processes, the preparation of the blood and the laboratory process are automatized. New developments in these fields are undeway that you will certainly identify and investigate. I do hope that you will come to conclusions from which we can learn and get better results. As general manager of the Development and Investments Company for the Northern Netherlands - NOM - for several reasons I am very much interested in the outcome of this symposium. In the first place I am proud that the Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen­ Drenthe is doing its utmost to be excellent in regard of research, education and bloodprocessing. In being so, the Blood Bank can produce spinn-offs for healthservices and the related industry.

• Laboratory
• biology
• blood
• development
• evaluation
• health
• microbiology
• outcome
• production
• public health
• quality
• quality assurance
• robotics
• safety
• standardization

• Red Cross Blood Bank Groningen-Drenthe, The Netherlands

  C. Th. Smit Sibinga, P. C. Das

• The Blood Center, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

  C. F. Högman

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