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AM24-SN-24-O: Crisis in the Rural Hospital Without Access to Blood Transfusion: Innovative Strategies to Address Global Blood Deserts and the Blood D.E.S.E.R.T. Coalition (Enduring)

Date
October 23, 2024
Credits
1.5 General Continuing Education (GEN) | 1.5 Florida Lab Personnel (FLP) | 1.5 California Nurse (CN) | 1.5 California Lab Personnel (CLP)
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There is an estimated annual 102 million unit blood shortage in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs): every single country in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia is in deficit. In many rural settings, hundreds of millions of people live without access to any blood; the only hospitals with stocked blood banks are hours away in an urban center. These settings are blood deserts: areas of the world where there is no reliable access to blood transfusion. Such conditions may also present in emergency operations and disaster response scenarios. There is an urgent need to advance innovations for blood deserts, (1) recognizing their presence and balancing risks to patients, and (2) prioritizing strategies that enable safe and timely access to blood transfusion. Three emerging strategies that might help alleviate the crisis in blood deserts are: (1) civilian and community walking blood banks (WBBs), (2) intraoperative autotransfusion (IAT), and (3) drone-based blood delivery (DBD). This session will examine the concept of a blood desert, detail experiences of frontline providers, review the latest research on defining blood unavailability, and evaluate the aforementioned strategies in terms of potential to address the crisis. The program will reflect on several applications and ongoing studies, as well as introduce the multidisciplinary Blood D.E.S.E.R.T Coalition (www.blooddesertcoalition.org). Its target audience is professional blood bank staff, clinical practitioners, and transfusion medicine physicians, as well as students, residents, and others interested in future directions of blood banking. We propose an extended (90-minute) session with additional speakers to include a diverse range of global perspectives and detailed exploration of the current state and next steps.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the current literature and approaches to defining blood deserts and blood unavailability
  • Evaluate three innovative strategies for emergency remote transfusion - WBBs, IAT, DBD- for feasibility, safety, and effectiveness
  • Assess the role of a multidisciplinary collaboration in on-going studies, applications, and regulatory/policy advocacy

Moderator

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Linda Barnes, DrPH, MHA, RAC, CABP(H)
Advisor, Investigator, Consultant, University of Pittsburgh

Speakers

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Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH, FACS
Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Harvard Medical School
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Asma Aliawadh, MBBS, MHM, MIPH
Langata and Kibera Sub-Counties, Kenya
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Kenya National Blood Ambassador, Coalition of Blood for Africa
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Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, National Blood Service Ghana

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