A Transfusion Audit In An Ugandan Hospital

Abstract 4410 Over the past 20–30 years the quality of hospital transfusion services and the optimal use of blood components have been major preoccupations of hospitals in developed countries and are now beginning to be addressed in hospitals in developing countries. In order to assess the quality of transfusion practices in an university-affiliated hospital in Uganda and to identity areas of strength and areas requiring improvement we undertook an audit of all RBC, either whole blood (WB) or pediatric packed cell (PC), transfusions administered over a 72 hour week-day period in March 2010, at Mulago Hospital Complex (MHC), Kampala, Uganda. MHC, the teaching hospital affiliated with the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, provides medical, surgical and obstetrical services; there are over 140,000 in-patient admissions per year of which approximately 15,000 are pediatric (i.e. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.