Right sample, right patient, safe transfusion.
The BTRAC system ensures traceability, safety, positive identification and monitoring of blood component administration, ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements, guidelines and best practices.
Explore the BTRAC journey
Prescription
- Prescription of blood components
- Obtaining informed consent for transfusion
- Updating the dashboard in the Transfusion Medicine Service
Sample Collection
- Nurse receives a notification on the PDA to collect the sample
- Printing of patient identification labels
- Sample identification
- Sending the sample to the Transfusion Medicine Service
Preparation of the Blood Component
- Confirmation of sample receipt by the Transfusion Medicine Service
- Preparation of the blood component
- Recording the dispatch of the blood component
- Updating the dashboard on the clinical service PDA
Administration of Blood Components
- Scanning the patient wristband and the blood component
- Recording initial vital signs
- Recording intermediate and final vital signs
- Identification of a possible transfusion reaction
- Monitoring transfusions and reactions by the Transfusion Medicine Service
Benefits of using BTRAC
Process dematerialisation
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Possible integration with HIS and LIS
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Elimination of paper records
Samples
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Sample alert for pre-transfusion testing, avoiding the collection of redundant samples
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No need to collect a second sample to confirm the blood group in patients being transfused for the first time
Improved management
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Timely control of blood component administration
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Dashboard for managing reserved/sent/administered/discarded components
Get to know BTRAC
Testimonials from those who make it happen
After one year of BTRAC implementation at Cascais Hospital, we have identified two main advantages:
Real-time monitoring of the blood transfusion process and a comprehensive transfusion report containing all the details.
BTRAC ensures that the right samples are collected from the right patients through the hospital identification wristband.
It ensures the correct matching between the patient, the sample and the blood unit. Finally, it also records vital signs throughout the entire process.