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ReviewThe Lancet. Global health2024

Innovative blood transfusion strategies to address global blood deserts: a consensus statement from the Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion (Blood DESERT) Coalition.

Nakul P Raykar, Vanitha Raguveer, Yetmgeta Eyayou Abdella, Asma Ali-Awadh, Harshit Arora, Lucy Asamoah-Akuoko, Linda S Barnes, Andrew P Cap, Aulina Chowdhury, Zara Cooper and 17 more

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Review in The Lancet. Global health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Nakul P RaykarProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: nraykar@bwh.harvard.edu.
Vanitha RaguveerProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Yetmgeta Eyayou AbdellaRegional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, WHO, Cairo, Egypt.
Asma Ali-AwadhSub-county Langata and Kibera, Nairobi Metropolitan Health Services, Nairobi, Kenya; Sisu Global Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Harshit AroraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Lucy Asamoah-AkuokoDepartment of Research, Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, National Blood Service, Accra, Ghana.
Linda S BarnesBiotherapies, AABB, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Andrew P CapUS Army Institute of Surgical Research, Houston, TX, USA.
Aulina ChowdhuryDepartment of Anesthesia, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Zara CooperCenter for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Meghan DelaneyDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
Marisa DelSignoreUniversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Sidra InamAllied Hospital Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Vijay Anand IsmavelDepartment of Surgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Kennedy JensenGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.
Nikathan KumarProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA.
Gilchrist LokoelDepartment of Medical Services, Turkana County Government, Lodwar, Kenya.
Joy John MammenDepartment of Transfusion Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Priyansh NathaniDr RN Cooper Municipal Medical College and General Hospital: Hinduhridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Medical College and Rustom Narsi Cooper Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India; WHO Collaboration Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low and Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
Marie Paul NisingizweDepartment of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Juan Carlos PuyanaDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Robert RivielloProgram in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Nobhojit RoyOperative Care, Clinical Services and Systems, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ali SalimDepartment of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Claude Tayou-TagnyDepartment of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Sargun VirkWHO Collaboration Center for Research in Surgical Care Delivery in Low and Middle Income Countries, Mumbai, India.
Caroline Wesonga WangamatiCoalition of Blood for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In rural settings worldwide, many people live in effective blood deserts without access to any blood transfusion. The traditional system of blood banking is logistically complex and expensive for many resource-restricted settings and demands innovative and multidisciplinary solutions. 17 international experts in medicine, industry, and policy participated in an exploratory process with a 2-day hybrid seminar centred on three promising innovative strategies for blood transfusions in blood deserts: civilian walking blood banks, intraoperative autotransfusion, and drone-based blood delivery. Participant working groups conducted literature reviews and interviews to develop three white papers focused on the current state and knowledge gaps of each innovation. Seminar discussion focused on defining blood deserts and developing innovation-specific implementation agendas with key research and policy priorities for future work. Moving forward, advocates should prioritise the identification of blood deserts and address the context-specific challenges for these innovations to alleviate the ongoing crisis in blood deserts.

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Blood BanksBlood TransfusionConsensusHumansPolicyRural Population

Identifiers

PMID38365422
PMCPMC10882207

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