Routine Use of Frozen Blood in a Community Hospital. Economic Dream or Reality?

Abstract

The routine use of frozen blood in a community hoapital is economically feasible even with only 40 per cent utilization of platelet concentrates and 100 per cent utilization of cryoprecipitate and Factor VIII-poor plasma. The medical advantages far outweigh the minimal added costs. Large hospitah with active blood banks should investigate the possibility of using frozen blood routinely. The fear of and the resistance to adopting newer procedures which may be technically more difficult must be overcome before the widespread w e of frozen blood becomes a reality. From the economic atandpoint, it already is.