Managing a community hospital blood bank with a freezer system
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Authors
Brill, Edward A.
Thomas, Marlin Uluess
Subjects
Blood bank Centrifuge
Frozen Simulation
Inventory
Model
Management
Frozen Simulation
Inventory
Model
Management
Advisors
Date of Issue
1974-01
Date
1974-01
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
The operational activities of a community hospital blood bank are described at all levels with special attention given to the inventory management of the bank. A distinguishing feature of this blood bank is the use of a centrifuge-freezer system which, prior to the ten day age limit, breaks down whole blood into its basic constituents, and stores them for extended periods fare exceeding the normal twenty-one day shelf life of whole blood. The inventory management policies thus include regulating the input of blood into the bank, the transfer of blood from the refrigerator to the freezer and the issuing policy of blood for various medical needs. Concomitant to these problems is the problem of forecasting demand. In addition to containing a descriptive model with all its complexity, this paper includes simulation study which compares the operational characteristics (shortage, wastage and cost) of the blood bank with and without the freezer system
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS55ZG55TO74011.
Sponsors
supported by the Office of Naval
Research, Arlington, Virginia 22217
Funder
RR 014-07; NR-047-116
Format
Citation
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.