TY - JOUR
T1 - Innovative blood transfusion strategies to address global blood deserts
T2 - a consensus statement from the Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion (Blood DESERT) Coalition
AU - Raykar, Nakul P.
AU - Raguveer, Vanitha
AU - Abdella, Yetmgeta Eyayou
AU - Ali-Awadh, Asma
AU - Arora, Harshit
AU - Asamoah-Akuoko, Lucy
AU - Barnes, Linda S.
AU - Cap, Andrew P.
AU - Chowdhury, Aulina
AU - Cooper, Zara
AU - Delaney, Meghan
AU - DelSignore, Marisa
AU - Inam, Sidra
AU - Ismavel, Vijay Anand
AU - Jensen, Kennedy
AU - Kumar, Nikathan
AU - Lokoel, Gilchrist
AU - Mammen, Joy John
AU - Nathani, Priyansh
AU - Nisingizwe, Marie Paul
AU - Puyana, Juan Carlos
AU - Riviello, Robert
AU - Roy, Nobhojit
AU - Salim, Ali
AU - Tayou-Tagny, Claude
AU - Virk, Sargun
AU - Wangamati, Caroline Wesonga
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - In rural settings worldwide, many people live in effective blood deserts without access to any blood transfusion. The traditional system of blood banking is logistically complex and expensive for many resource-restricted settings and demands innovative and multidisciplinary solutions. 17 international experts in medicine, industry, and policy participated in an exploratory process with a 2-day hybrid seminar centred on three promising innovative strategies for blood transfusions in blood deserts: civilian walking blood banks, intraoperative autotransfusion, and drone-based blood delivery. Participant working groups conducted literature reviews and interviews to develop three white papers focused on the current state and knowledge gaps of each innovation. Seminar discussion focused on defining blood deserts and developing innovation-specific implementation agendas with key research and policy priorities for future work. Moving forward, advocates should prioritise the identification of blood deserts and address the context-specific challenges for these innovations to alleviate the ongoing crisis in blood deserts.
AB - In rural settings worldwide, many people live in effective blood deserts without access to any blood transfusion. The traditional system of blood banking is logistically complex and expensive for many resource-restricted settings and demands innovative and multidisciplinary solutions. 17 international experts in medicine, industry, and policy participated in an exploratory process with a 2-day hybrid seminar centred on three promising innovative strategies for blood transfusions in blood deserts: civilian walking blood banks, intraoperative autotransfusion, and drone-based blood delivery. Participant working groups conducted literature reviews and interviews to develop three white papers focused on the current state and knowledge gaps of each innovation. Seminar discussion focused on defining blood deserts and developing innovation-specific implementation agendas with key research and policy priorities for future work. Moving forward, advocates should prioritise the identification of blood deserts and address the context-specific challenges for these innovations to alleviate the ongoing crisis in blood deserts.
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U2 - 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00564-8
DO - 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00564-8
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38365422
AN - SCOPUS:85185300782
SN - 2214-109X
VL - 12
SP - e522-e529
JO - The Lancet Global Health
JF - The Lancet Global Health
IS - 3
ER -