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Jayaram A, Dutta R, Kim EK, Mahajan A, Pendleton A, Nathani P, Veetil DK, Stossberger R, McClain CD, Grewal M, Gadgil A, Roy N, Raykar NP. Alternative strategies for emergency blood transfusion in low-resource settings: A scoping review. Transfusion 2024. [PMID: 38742837 DOI: 10.1111/trf.17838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2024] [Revised: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Anusha Jayaram
- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College, Mumbai, India
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
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- The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India
- Department of Public Health Systems, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Munoz-Valencia A, Aridi JO, Barnes LS, Rudd KE, Bidanda B, Epuu T, Kamu R, Kivuli T, Macleod J, Makanga CM, Makin J, Mate M, Muiru CN, Murithi G, Musa A, Nyagol H, Ochieng K, Rajgopal J, Raykar NP, Tian Y, Yazer MH, Zeng B, Olayo B, Kumar P, Puyana JC. Protocol: identifying policy, system, and environment change interventions to enhance availability of blood for transfusion in Kenya, a mixed-methods study. BMC Health Serv Res 2023; 23:963. [PMID: 37679772 PMCID: PMC10486046 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-09936-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Safe blood is essential for the care of patients with life-threatening anemia and hemorrhage. Low blood donation rates, inefficient testing procedures, and other supply chain disruptions in blood administration affect patients in low-resource settings across Sub-Saharan countries, including Kenya. Most efforts to improve access to transfusion have been unidimensional, usually focusing on only point along the blood system continuum, and have excluded community stakeholders from early stages of intervention development. Context-appropriate interventions to improve the availability of safe blood at the point of use in low-resource settings are of paramount importance. Thus, this protocol proposes a multifaceted approach to characterize the Kenyan blood supply chain through quantitative and qualitative analyses as well as an industrial engineering approach. METHODS This study will use a mixed-methods approach in addition to engineering process mapping, modeling and simulation of blood availability in Kenya. It will be guided by a multidimensional three-by-three-by-three matrix: three socioeconomic settings, three components of the blood system continuum, and three levels of urgency of blood transfusion. Qualitative data collection includes one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions with stakeholders across the continuum to characterize ground-level deficits and potential policy, systems, and environment (PSE) interventions. Prospectively-collected quantitative data will be used to estimate blood collection and transfusion of blood. We will create a process map of the blood system continuum to model the response to PSE changes proposed by stakeholders. Lastly, we will identify those PSE changes that may have the greatest impact on blood transfusion availability, accounting for differences across socioeconomic settings and levels of urgency. DISCUSSION Identifying and prioritizing community-driven interventions to improve blood supply in low-resource settings are of utmost importance. Varied constraints in blood collection, processing, delivery, and use make each socioeconomic setting unique. Using a multifaceted approach to understand the Kenyan blood supply and model the response to stakeholder-proposed PSE changes may lead to identification of contextually appropriate intervention targets to meet the transfusion needs of the population.
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- Alejandro Munoz-Valencia
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Linda S. Barnes Consulting, Seattle, WA, USA
- Doctor of Public Health Leadership, University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
- Department of Surgery, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Magee Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Public Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
- Department of Surgery, Egerton University, Nakuru, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
- Ministry of Health & Sanitation, Turkana County Government, Turkana, Kenya
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- Center for Public Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Center for Public Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Public Health and Development, Kisumu, Kenya
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- Institute of Healthcare Management, Strathmore University Business School, Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Burt MR, Tobin CS, Guido JM, Timmerman GL, Weigelt JA. Management of High Grade Splenic Injuries in Rural America. Am Surg 2022:31348221114030. [PMID: 35815786 DOI: 10.1177/00031348221114030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Rural surgeons face unique challenges when managing patients with high-grade (III-V) blunt splenic injury (BSI) given limited access to interventional radiology and blood products. Patients therefore may require transfer for splenic artery embolization (SAE) when resuscitation may still be ongoing. This study aims to evaluate current resource utilization in a rural trauma population with limited access to SAE and blood products. METHODS Retrospective analysis of adult patients with high-grade BSI at one Level 1 trauma center and two Level 2 trauma centers was performed. Patients were evaluated for resources used after transfer to the regional trauma center. Primary outcomes measured were SAE, operative management (OM), and blood product utilization. Secondary outcomes measured included injury severity score (ISS) and mortality. RESULTS Final analysis included 134 transferred patients. 16% underwent SAE, 16% underwent OM, and 69% were treated successfully with nonoperative and non-procedural management (NOM). 52% of the SAE patients had sustained a grade III splenic injury, 38% grade IV, and 10% grade V. 84% of patients required <3 units of packed red blood cells (PRBC) and 57% of patients required none. 80% of transferred patients required <3 total units of all combined blood products. DISCUSSION The majority of patients with BSI transferred to a tertiary trauma center from a rural facility were successfully managed without SAE and required minimal transfusion of blood products. In the absence of other injuries necessitating transfer to a tertiary trauma center, rural surgeons should consider management of high grade splenic injuries at their home institution.
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- Michael R Burt
- Department of Surgery, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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Raykar NP, Makin J, Khajanchi M, Olayo B, Munoz Valencia A, Roy N, Ottolino P, Zinco A, MacLeod J, Yazer M, Rajgopal J, Zeng B, Lee HK, Bidanda B, Kumar P, Puyana JC, Rudd K. Assessing the global burden of hemorrhage: The global blood supply, deficits, and potential solutions. SAGE Open Med 2021; 9:20503121211054995. [PMID: 34790356 PMCID: PMC8591638 DOI: 10.1177/20503121211054995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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There is a critical shortage of blood available for transfusion in many low- and middle-income countries. The consequences of this scarcity are dire, resulting in uncounted morbidity and mortality from trauma, obstetric hemorrhage, and pediatric anemias, among numerous other conditions. The process of collecting blood from a donor to administering it to a patient involves many facets from donor availability to blood processing to blood delivery. Each step faces particular challenges in low- and middle-income countries. Optimizing existing strategies and introducing new approaches will be imperative to ensure a safe and sufficient blood supply worldwide.
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- Nakul P Raykar
- Trauma & Emergency General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.,Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Center for Public Health and Development, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Health Systems Strengthening Unit, CARE-India, Bihar, India.,Department of Surgery, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Sotero Del Rio, Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Sotero Del Rio, Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.,Business School, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Business School, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Tsang VWL, Luo LH, Kisa P, Blair GK. Ten Global Surgical Care Statements for Children: examining our commitment to the future. Pediatr Surg Int 2021; 37:957-964. [PMID: 33689002 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-021-04875-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND The lack of access to essential surgery for many of our world's children is a global health crisis. A third of all deaths in the pediatric population are due to surgical conditions. In low- and middle-income countries, an average of nine in ten children lack access to basic surgical care. METHODS This review examines ten commitment statements ratified by numerous global pediatric surgical organizations aimed at addressing existing gaps in global surgical care for children. They are substantiated by a review of literature and represent over-arching principles. RESULTS They prompt the recognition of childhood surgical disease as a global health priority and advocate for availability to safe surgical and anesthetic care. Calls to action highlight the importance of capacity building in the areas of education, data gathering, workforce, research, and international collaborations. DISCUSSION Eventually, there is the hope for widespread approval of the guiding principles they represent and that the statements themselves, as encapsulations of these beliefs, may act as a continued call for advocacy and action for the necessary work, resources, and funding to mitigate global pediatric surgical disparities.
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- Vivian W L Tsang
- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Gress KL, Charipova K, Urits I, Viswanath O, Kaye AD. Supply, Demand, and Quality: A Three-Pronged Approach to Blood Product Management in Developing Countries. J Patient Cent Res Rev 2021; 8:121-126. [PMID: 33898644 PMCID: PMC8060046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
Abstract
While transfusion of blood and blood products is instinctively linked to the provision of emergent care, blood and blood products are also routinely used for the treatment of subacute and chronic conditions. Despite the efforts of the World Health Organization and others, developing countries are faced with a three-part problem when it comes to access to and delivery of transfusions: insufficient supply, excessive demand, and inadequate quality of available supply. Developing countries rely heavily on replacement and remunerated donors rather than voluntary nonremunerated donors due to concerns regarding donation- and transfusion-transmitted infection as well as local and cultural beliefs. While increased awareness of HIV and improved testing techniques have jointly reduced infection-related apprehensions and improved the quality of available blood and blood products, continued efforts are warranted to bolster testing for other bloodborne pathogens. Similarly, although prevalence rates of anemia are high in some areas of the world, success in adequate widespread management of these conditions has been limited. One of the keys to expanding access to high-quality blood and blood products is thus to improve medical management of conditions that would otherwise require transfusion. Through a three-pronged approach to address quantity, quality, and demand, developing countries can enable themselves to build toward self-sufficient blood management services and increased independence from the support of international organizations.
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- Kyle L. Gress
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Valley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants – Envision Physician Services, Phoenix, AZ; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ; Department of Anesthesiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA
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