SUM Hospital Introduces New Technology For Blood Transfusion Management

Bhubaneswar:  A new technology to help clinicians and surgeons to optimize management of a patient’s blood in major surgeries and traumatic bleeding has been introduced at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital (IMSSH).

“The biggest challenge during surgeries and other emergencies is adequate blood transfusion. There is risk of infection as well as other issues,” said speakers at a seminar held at the hospital on Wednesday.

Excess or inadequate blood transfusion is not good and can even be fatal.

A new instrument, Rotational Thromboelastometry (ROTEM), can now aid clinicians and surgeons to decide on blood transfusion modalities and products for better management, Dr Pushparaj Samantasinhar, Medical Superintendent of IMSSH said.
Efforts are on to develop IMSSH as a centre for organ transplantation, he said.
The seminar on ‘ROTEM in Transfusion Management and Organ Transplantation’ was attended by Prof. Ashok Mohapatra, eminent neuro surgeon and Director of Medical Programmes at SOA Deemed to be University, Prof. Gangadhar Sahu, Dean, IMSSH, Dr Magnus Jayaraj Mansard, Liver Transplant expert and Hepatobiliary Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, Prof. Manoj Kumar Sahu, Head of Department of Gastroenterology at IMSSH, Dr Ajay Gandhi, Clinical Head, IL-Werfen India and Dr Rajesh Kumar Bhola, Head, Lab Hematology at IMSSH.

The new technology will remove the limitations in the laboratories. SUM Hospital is taking steps to bring awareness and sensitise clinicians about protocol-based transfusion management for maximum benefit to patients and to save lives.

Nearly 100 doctors from different streams including transfusion medicine, critical care, obstetrics and gynaecology, medicine, paediatrics, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, clinical hematology, anaesthesiology and pathology attended the seminar.

Most of the speakers stressed on protocol based management of bleeding episodes while highlighting the challenges of organ transplantation.