Reports on transfusion medicine findings from Georgetown University, Department of Laboratory Medicine provide new insights

Current study results from the report, "Radiofrequency identification technology can standardize and document blood collections and transfusions," have been published. According to recent research from the United States, "We evaluated the potential for radiofrequency (RF) transponder microchips to standardize and document key steps in the blood collection and transfusion process Using the blood center's standard operating procedures for blood collections, we programmed a laptop computer and 10 multiwrite 256-byte RF microchips to prompt operators to enter data for key steps in blood collection. Before collections, RF microchips were attached to blood collection sets at the blood...

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