139 results about "Blood bank" patented technology

The present invention provides an improved kit for the collection of umbilical cord blood and placental blood, and collection of the placenta from which such blood is obtained. The kit improves upon existing kits in that it provides for improved user convenience, provides for the collection of the placenta itself, and better maintains the internal temperature of the container in which the collected blood and placenta are shipped to a blood bank or registry. The invention further provides a method of collecting umbilical cord and placental blood, and the placenta from which such blood is obtained, comprising using the kit described herein.

The present invention provides an improved kit for the collection of umbilical cord blood and placental blood, and collection of the placenta from which such blood is obtained. The kit improves upon existing kits in that it provides for improved user convenience, provides for the collection of the placenta itself, and better maintains the internal temperature of the container in which the collected blood and placenta are shipped to a blood bank or registry. The invention further provides a method of collecting umbilical cord and placental blood, and the placenta from which such blood is obtained, comprising using the kit described herein.

The present invention provides an improved kit for the collection of umbilical cord blood and placental blood, and collection of the placenta from which such blood is obtained. The kit improves upon existing kits in that it provides for improved user convenience, provides for the collection of the placenta itself, and better maintains the internal temperature of the container in which the collected blood and placenta are shipped to a blood bank or registry. The invention further provides a method of collecting umbilical cord and placental blood, and the placenta from which such blood is obtained, comprising using the kit described herein.

The present invention provides an improved kit for the collection of umbilical cord blood and placental blood, and collection of the placenta from which such blood is obtained. The kit improves upon existing kits in that it provides for improved user convenience, provides for the collection of the placenta itself, and better maintains the internal temperature of the container in which the collected blood and placenta are shipped to a blood bank or registry. The invention further provides a method of collecting umbilical cord and placental blood, and the placenta from which such blood is obtained, comprising using the kit described herein.

A disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit employed during cardiopulmonary bypass surgery performs gas exchange, heat transfer, and microemboli filtering functions in a way as to conserve volume, to reduce setup and change out times, to eliminate a venous blood reservoir, and to substantially reduce blood-air interface. Blood from the patient or prime solution is routed through an air removal device that is equipped with air sensors for detection of air. An active air removal controller removes detected air from blood in the air removal device. A disposable circuit support module is used to mount the components of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit in close proximity and in a desirable spatial relationship to optimize priming and use of the disposable, integrated extracorporeal blood circuit. A reusable circuit holder supports the disposable circuit support module in relation to a prime solution source, the active air removal controller and other components.

A method, programmed digital computer and computer program product for assessing and managing security risks in an iterative fashion is provided. The invention is adaptable for use with any system with security targets that are accessible to a security threat. The invention is applicable to all systems with physical, electronic and virtual targets that can be accessed by a threat, thus creating a risk to the system, e.g., systems surrounding hospitals, blood banks, mass transit operations, power production and transmission facilities, communication systems, internet service providers, email and web hosting service providers, electronic commerce, financial institutions and school district lunch programs. Under the invention, if a security threat can access a security target within a system then a risk to the system is present. The invention provides an iterative process by which the system may be analyzed as an undivided whole or may, alternatively, be divided into discrete sections where all known security targets are identified within each section. All threats to each individual target are then identified and it is determined whether each threat has access to the associated target. If access is present, a qualitative or quantitative risk level is assigned. Then, appropriate countermeasures are considered and, where appropriate, implemented if the risk level is unacceptably high. A second inquiry is made regarding whether the particular threat has access to its identified target, considering the implemented countermeasure(s), and a second risk level assignment performed. If the risk level remains high, the process is repeated until the risk level for the subject target is acceptably low. All remaining targets are secured in this manner.

Compositions, methods, devices and media are provided for platelet storage container that prevents bacterial growth in the stored platelets. The invention relates to blood bank needs in safely storing platelets collected from donors for more than 5 days at room temperature. The container is built with natural adsorbent media that have the characteristics in capturing and killing bacteria and viruses. The stored platelets are isolated from the natural adsorbent material during storage to preserve their medical quality and safety.

A blood storage container suitable for quick and efficient production of a large amount of serum while ensuring high safety, and a method of separating blood and a regenerative medical process using the same are provided. In a blood component separator 1 for separating collected blood into a plurality of blood components and preserving them, the separator 1 including a blood reservoir 10 for reserving the blood and a component storage part 20 aseptically connected in an air-tight manner to this blood reservoir 10, to the aforementioned blood reservoir 10 being imparted a serum producing function to remove coagulation factors from the blood to an extent enabling use in practical applications as a serum, and the aforementioned component storage part 20 storing each blood component generated by separation of the blood in the blood reservoir 10.

A platform or workstation comprising a plurality of various size holes and slots for holding blood specimens, test tubes, gel-cards and reagent bottles in an organized arrangement to simplify testing of the blood specimens and to eliminate the likelihood of human error. The platform comprises a top plate, a middle plate and a bottom plate which are spaced apart in a parallel plates arrangement. The top plate and the middle plate each comprise a plurality of holes in a matrix configuration for receiving blood specimen tubes and test tubes, and one or more columns of slots adjacent to the matrix configuration of holes for receiving gel-cards. Other size holes are provided for receiving the reagent bottles. The bottom plate only has screw holes for securing the top plate, middle plate and bottom plate together in the spaced apart relationship, and otherwise performs as a stop for articles inserted into the workstation holes. A first embodiment organizes all equipment needed to perform routine and complex testing in one space using 70 holes of 3 sizes and 3 slots in a predetermined arrangement. A second embodiment organizes blood specimens, test tubes and gel-cards in a row and stores reagents needed to perform tests using 57 holes of 3 sizes and 16 slots in a predetermined arrangement. A third embodiment organizes equipment for special studies and tests and uses 35 holes of 3 sizes and 12 slots in a predetermined arrangement.

A platform or workstation comprising a plurality of various size holes and slots for holding blood specimens, test tubes, gel-cards and reagent bottles in an organized arrangement to simplify testing of the blood specimens and to eliminate the likelihood of human error. The platform comprises a top plate, a middle plate and a bottom plate which are spaced apart in a parallel plates arrangement. The top plate and the middle plate each comprise a plurality of holes in a matrix configuration for receiving blood specimen tubes and test tubes, and one or more columns of slots adjacent to the matrix configuration of holes for receiving gel-cards. Other size holes are provided for receiving the reagent bottles. The workstation organizes blood specimens, test tubes and gel-cards in a row and stores reagents needed to perform tests using 57 holes of 3 sizes and 16 slots in a predetermined arrangement.

The invention relates to the field of the medical test quality control, in particular to a multinomial liquid quality control material and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: collecting waste blood of a blood bank; carrying out clinical examination on a waste blood sample or mammal blood; separating serum or blood plasma; analyzing the content of each quality control components in the serum or the blood plasma; adjusting each analysis component; adopting a methylene blue photosensitive inactivation method to inactivate various potential pathogenic microorganisms; and adding a composite protective agent to prepare the quality control material. As the invention adds the composite protective agent consisting of glycol and glycerol into the quality control material, each analysis component in the quality control material is stable, can be stable for one month at room temperature, can be stable for 2 to 4 months at a temperature of 4 DEG C, and can be stable for 12 months at a temperature of minus 20 DEG C. Moreover, the quality control material of the invention adopts the methylene blue photosensitive inactivation method to inactivate various potential pathogenic microorganisms, thereby having no potential pathogenic microorganism harmfulness.

The invention discloses an RFID blood management system which comprises an RFID scanning module, a communication system, and a blood collection system, a blood-bank-in system, a blood-bank-out system, a blood use system, a reserve management system, a blood information tracking system, a blood station monitoring system and a query system connected with the communication system. Via RFID codes, bank-out information of blood and entire information of a blood user can be found, and blood information is tracked; RFID blood bags are prepared, each link in transport, storage and sue is loaded in an RFID chip, and blood source information can be uploaded to a blood center database via the GSM network; and thus, information in the whole blood transfusion and supply process is shared, the blood transfusion and supply process is controllable, and the safety and supervision performance of medical blood transfusion and supply are improved.

The invention discloses a submarine automatic cage fish trap which consists of a removable fish cage, a liquid nitrogen gasification device, a safety device, a floating box, an automatic balancing pod, a device used to increase the flowing speed in the fish cage, a feeding bait device, a fishy box, a gate controller and a monitor. Wherein, the gate controller consists of a switch fishing warehouse gate, a device used to drive the fish into a fish storage house and a switch fish storage house gate. The fish trap has the advantages that the fish trap can enter into coral reef areas that the prior top four fishing tackles and fishing methods cannot enter into to trap fish and develop fishery resources; the operation of the fish trap does not bring damages to the marine ecological system; the fish trap can trap all submarine fish and crabs in the daytime, all shrimps and lobsters in the nighttime, and squid in the nighttime under the light of lamps, add the trappable shark of a blood bank, and is a comprehensive and multi-functional trapping device which has the advantages of high trapping capability and automation degree, low operation labor intensity, high efficiency, high yield and lower energy consumption.

In one embodiment the present invention relates to a method for automatically tracking blood product administration in a computerized healthcare environment. Information regarding a blood product unit received by the blood bank department is documented in a database. An indication that the blood product unit has been administered to the patient by a healthcare provider is received and the database is automatically updated to reflect that the blood product unit has been administered to the patient. The present invention also relates to a method for automatically notifying a blood bank database of administration of a blood product to a patient in a computerized healthcare environment is provided.

A newborn transfusion cell washing device generally comprising a disposable, graduated test tube shaped container having a cap with an inlet port, an injection / sampling port, a suction port, and a vent. The container is capable of being inserted into a conventional clinical centrifuge. The device requires a relatively small volume to operate, 25 ml or less per procedure, and can be performed easily by any hospital blood bank technologist without any special skills. Washed RBCs can be provided to the patient in a timely manner, without the need for “fresh blood.” Any in-dated RBCs can be washed to remove excessive potassium and other toxins. The main RBC aliquot can be saved and repeatedly sampled until the unit is expired or exhausted. This provides a cost savings to the hospital and more importantly, minimizes the recipient's donor exposure.

Magnets and magnetic particle-labeled reagents are used to capture and / or release magnetic particle-tagged entities for immunohematology diagnostic testing purposes, especially tests performed in blood banking. The magnetic tagged entities may be tagged antibodies, tagged blood cells, tagged universal binding partners, especially tagged lectins and tagged Coombs reagent, and other binding agents such as biotin-avidin, Protein A or G, ligands and their receptors and the like. Separation of unbound material from bound material is effected through the use of one or both the magnetic field effect on the magnetic labeled reactants and the density gradients of layers of an assay construct. Constructs such as chromatographic strip lateral flow format, and liquid phase reactions in suitable vessels with end point determinations that do not require centrifugation to detect reacted entities. Readable labels such as enzymes, fluorophors, chemiluminescent materials, radioactive isotopes, and other labels may be attached to Coombs reagent to provide a readable product of the Coombs reagent with any antibody participating in the assay.

This invention provides a continuous blood filtration apparatus capable of filtering a plurality of blood samples continuous by using blood filter units to prepare plasma or serum samples in a short period, which comprises, a conveyor conveying a plurality of blood reservoirs each of which contains a blood sample and in which a suction nozzle of a blood filter unit has been put, a manifold connected to a suction line, couples of a valve and a connector for connecting the manifold to the blood filter unit provided on the end of each branch of the manifold, and a mechanism of moving the blood reservoirs in vertical direction.

A vacuum assisted venous blood reservoir has a controller that can sense pressure within a sealed blood chamber. The controller regulates the amount of vacuum within the chamber to control the level of blood in the venous reservoir. A safety valve is included to prevent blood from entering the vacuum line.

A blood reservoir being capable of reducing damage to blood stored therein. The blood reservoir has a housing in the form of a box, and filtering and defoaming devices provided in the housing, i.e., a device for filtering and defoaming on blood suctioned from a surgical field (outside a heart), a device for filtering and defoaming on blood vented from the interior of the heart, and a device for filtering and defoaming on blood drawn off from a large vein. The vented blood flowing into the blood reservoir passes through a vented blood filtering member to be introduced into a blood storage space without contacting an antifoaming agent and foreign substances filtered off from the suctioned blood.

The invention discloses a blood bank information management method and a blood bank information management system, wherein the blood bank information management method comprises: receiving a blood bank information inquiry request message which is provided with blood type information; inquiring corresponding blood bank capacity information according to the blood type information in a blood bank information database, and returning the blood bank capacity information. A blood bank information updating method comprises: receiving a blood bank information updating request message which is provided with the blood type information and capacity information; updating the blood bank capacity information in the blood bank information database according to the blood type information and the capacity information. The invention also provides a blood bank information automatic scrapping method. The blood bank information management system comprises a public client, a blood collecting point client, a blood bank client, a hospital client and a collaboration medical information platform. The invention realizes the effective management for the information in the blood bank, saves society human cost, and improves the disease treatment efficiency of the hospital.

The invention discloses a clinical blood transfusion evaluating system and evaluating method, and relates to a medical information technology. The clinical blood transfusion evaluating system comprises a central processor, an input terminal and a user terminal, wherein the output end of the input terminal is connected with the input end of the central processor, the central processor is further in both-way connection with the user terminal and a local database, and the local database is used for storing department data tables, medical group tables, doctor tables and hospital total data tables. The local database is further connected with at least one third party database. The third party database is one of an HIS database, a BIS database and an LIS database. According to the clinical blood transfusion evaluating system and evaluating method, an expert-level system is constructed, experience data of all doctors can be integrated, expert-level technological advices are provided for doctors when the doctors make blood prescriptions, reasonable blood prescriptions are convenient for doctors to make, meanwhile, blood transfusion data sharing among all hospitals can be achieved, professional ability of all the doctors is improved, and blood management ability of hospitals and blood banks is improved.

The invention provides a fully-automatic storage system for a blood bank. The system comprises electronic identifiers adhered to blood bags, a mechanical hand, a conveyor belt, a storage rack, a scanning device, a control device and a human-computer interaction interface. The fully-automatic storage system for the blood bank can be used for automatically finishing the automatic warehousing and delivery of blood products and the scanning, identifying, storing and recording of blood product information in a low-temperature environment.

The invention discloses an adding liquid for refrigerating platelets, comprising a blood anticoagulant, platelets metabolic substrates, balancing salt and a platelets refrigerating protection agent. The adding liquid for refrigerating the platelets in the invention can reduce refrigeration injury of the platelets under low temperature condition, keep activity of the platelets, meet requirements of intravenous infusion, and can be applied for mass refrigeration of a blood bank.

The invention discloses a suspended anti-flood wall which comprises a flood bank, and the crest level of the flood blank is the same as that of an urban waterfront ground. A steel flash board is connected to the top face of the flood bank, a rotary shaft which is arranged on the waterside of the blood bank is arranged at the lower end of the steel flash board, the rotary shaft of the steel flash board is installed in a rotary shaft supporting base, and the rotary shaft supporting base is fixedly arranged on the top face of the flood bank; a flash board limiting baffle plate is arranged on the rotary shaft supporting base; an inhaul cable is connected to the steel flash board; a locking shaft is arranged on the backwater side of the steel flash board, and a locking device matched with the locking shaft is arranged on the top face of the flood bank. Under the condition that the anti-flood safety is ensured, the suspended anti-flood wall has no influence on visual continuity of people, thereby better improving the quality of an urban landscape and solving the problem that the urban landscape and urban flood control are contradicting.

The present invention provides a medical skin disinfection liquid, which comprises a traditional Chinese medicine composition, tween-80, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate and alcohol. The medical skin disinfection liquid has characteristics of strong bactericidal effect, no skin irritation, no toxic side effect, stable performance, volatilization resistance, no odor, and no drug resistance generation. In addition, with the medical skin disinfection liquid, defects of the existing disinfection liquid are made up, and the medical skin disinfection liquid is worthy of being applied and promoted in blood-bank blood donation.

The enumeration and analysis of residual white blood cells in a sample of leukocyte-reduced blood products is conducted by forming a suspension of the leukocyte-reduced blood products with a sufficient amount of a lysing reagent. The lysing reagent comprises a buffer with a low molar concentration, and a non-ionic surfactant. The suspension of leukocyte-reduced blood products and the lysing reagent is incubated for a sufficient time at a temperature sufficient to selectively lyse the platelets and red blood cells without damaging the white blood cells. The white blood cells of the lysed blood products are then contacted with a suitable dye to stain the white blood cells and the number of stained white blood cells is measured. The lysing reagent is free of harsh organic solvents which can damage the plastic components of automated clinical analyzers.

A protein chip for testing the infectious diseases from the taken blood in blood bank, its preparing process and its testing method are disclosed. The antibodies or antigens and positive and negativereferences of heapatitis B, hepatitis C, AIDS and syphilis are densely arrayed on solid carrier, to which the protein is linked via chemical bond. Said protein is arrayed in a cavity of multi-sample microarray biochip. The reaction results for more antibodies or antigens of different blood samples can be obtained by one-pass reaction. Its advantages are high sensitivity and high specificity.

The invention provides a blood storage bank system and an access control method. The problems of high refrigeration energy consumption, medical accidents caused by human error defects, low working efficiency, high labor intensity and the like of the conventional manual storage and management of a blood bank are solved. The blood storage bank system comprises a storage tank with a cold storage cavity, wherein the storage tank is provided with storage windows and taking windows; a material shelf is arranged in the storage tank; advancing mechanical arms are arranged on the material shelf; the storage tank is communicated with heat exchange units; temperature sensors are arranged in the cold storage cavity of the storage tank; and the heat exchange units, the temperature sensors and the mechanical arms are in control connection with a computer controller. The access control method comprises the following steps of 1) scanning stored blood bags; 2) inputting data information; 3) storing the blood bags under control; 4) making blood bag taking records; 5) taking out the blood bags under control; 6) locking the windows; 7) regulating and controlling cold storage temperature; and 8) giving an alarm when the temperature is abnormal. According to the system and the method, the blood bank is automatically monitored, the safe access and use of the blood bank is ensured, and the cold storage temperature is accurately controlled.

Provided is a blood storage tank equipped with a filter having a treatment capacity desired by a health worker. A health worker managing a blood storage tank can comprehend the amount of stored blood more accurately. Furthermore, bubbles are prevented from being mixed into blood after bubbles are removed therefrom. A filter member (52) of a blood storage tank (1) is a filter member for removing foreign matters and bubbles from the blood. The filter member (52) is equipped with a first filter portion (52a) and a second filter portion (52b). The first filter portion (52a) forms the wall portion and the second filter portion (52b) forms the bottom portion. Specifications of the first filter portion (52a) and the second filter portion (52b) are different. The guide member (60) of the blood storage tank (1) consists of foaming material. The blood from which bubbles are removed are thereby led in a state where the blood permeated the guide member (60). Consequently, the guide member (60) can lead the blood from which bubbles are removed to a predetermined position at an appropriate landing speed.