Barnes A
Blood Bank, Memorial Medical Center of Long Beach, CA 90801-1428.
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1989 Mar;113(3):296-9.
Recognition that human immunodeficiency virus could be transmitted by blood transfusion has brought the practice of transfusion medicine into the public consciousness with great force. Patients are informed about the dangers of receiving a blood transfusion and are expressing their preferences about the source of the blood they may receive and the conditions under which they may receive it. Government, blood bank organizations, and physicians are responding to the public demand for a safe blood supply. As a result, profound changes are underway in hospital blood donor services, transfusion service inventory controls, and patient transfusion practices. A much more bureaucratic and complex system has emerged. Providing help to patients and physicians as they struggle to cope with the vicissitudes of this confusing new transfusion medicine is the role of the medical director of the hospital blood bank.
认识到人类免疫缺陷病毒可通过输血传播，这极大地将输血医学实践带入了公众的意识之中。患者被告知接受输血的风险，并表达了他们对可能接受的血液来源以及接受输血的条件的偏好。政府、血库组织和医生正在回应公众对安全血液供应的需求。结果，医院献血服务、输血服务库存控制和患者输血实践正在发生深刻变化。一个更加官僚化和复杂的系统已经出现。医院血库的医学主任的职责是在患者和医生努力应对这种令人困惑的新输血医学的变迁时为他们提供帮助。
