Project description
A safety device to prevent blood transfusion errors
The EU-funded Para-T System project aims to achieve the goal declared by the European authorities of '0 errors' in blood transfusions due to incompatibilities between the patient’s blood and the transfusion bag. The Para-T System is a simple and cheap device: it comprises two cassettes that can be attached to the donor blood bag and the catheter that is inserted in the patient’s vein, enabling an almost immediate ABO blood group identification and matching in both the blood bag and the patient. The system will help prevent deaths caused by an incompatible ABO transfusion. Implementation of the Para-T System in routine blood transfusion procedures will expedite the process, reduce costs and prevent transfusion mistakes.
Objective
"The Para-T System
""A quick blood group device to match in situ the donor bag and the receptor arm during a blood transfusion, avoiding major incompatible errors"".
The Para-T system is a double identifier device (two plastic cassettes) designed on the one side, to be attached to a bag containing whole blood or Red Blood Cells and on the other, to the catheter inserted in the patient vein allowing a direct, quick (less than a minute) and permanent blood group identification (ABO typing).
The ABO tests in the bag and in the patient’ catheter is kept visible from the donation moment till the end of the patient hospitalization, allowing a visual comparison of the blood groups between both cassettes and detecting labelling errors. The technology reduces 4 ABO re-checking during the blood component processing (from a total of 7) reducing staff costs. Combining bag and patient cassettes, the Para-T system conforms a Transfusional Safety System that prevent ABO incompatible transfusions by means of a visual checking (simple solution) or using a PDA QR code reader that controls a solenoid valve incorporated in the tubing system to prevent automatically the transfusion if both bloods are incompatible (complex solution).
The performance of the proposed Safety System is as efficient to avoid mistakes as the most advanced electronic solutions based on personalized wristbands and a sophisticated supportive software offered by some large pharmaceutical firms, but at one tenth of the cost.
The market applications for the new Transfusional Safety Solution are huge as many developing and developed countries cannot afford the expensive electronic solutions and Para-T brings a cheap option to the marketplace with equal or even superior performance.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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28016 MADRID
Spain
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