This little
snippet came from the BBC (via the
British Blood Transfusion Society’s Facebook page): “Blood vending machines; what do you think?”
The
article was obviously written for the layman, but it makes a lot of sense.
Given that the usual criteria are met for a given patient to be suitable for
the electronic issue of blood (let’s face
it, 90+% of patients are suitable) why not let the clinicians got to a
blood vending device. The thing would obviously record who blood was allocated
for, would issue suitable blood, and the lab staff could devote their time on
the vanishingly small proportion of patients who can only have blood provided
by time-consuming manual techniques.
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