Compliance with 98/2002/EC has highlighted many problems in the management, control,storage and tracking of blood units for transfusion. Accurately and reliably recording the Fate of Blood Units is one of the most urgent problems needing to be resolved. The benefits of automating this process are clear and the whole cost of operation and system reliability of a manual solution is often not as cheap or as foolproof as it might at first appear.

Olympus has a market leading reputation in the delivery of simple systems to automate and improve the safety of Blood Transfusion, and support compliance with the EU Directive and its counterpart in UK law. New solutions for fating blood units are available now from Olympus; simpler to implement and operate than a paper system and at a comparable cost.

BloodTrack® AutoFate

• Scan existing blood unit barcodes – no need for new paper forms or new barcodes
• Fate of unit recorded back at the lab – no paper fate slips to lose in transit
• No interface required – easy to implement anywhere

A similar ward based system to AutoFate, but with real time updates to LIS

• Scan existing blood unit barcodes – no need for new paper forms or new barcodes
• Fate of unit recorded back at the lab – no paper fate slips to lose in transit
• Full real time inventory management and traceability of blood stock

 BloodTrack® SafeTx Essential

• Patient ID wristbands and compatibility labels on blood unit
   - the right patient gets the right blood
• Automatic recording of fate of unit
  - no paper required, no loss of fate slips
• No interface required
  - easy to implement anywhere