Patient specific order

Products

• Single-donor platelet concentrate, HLA and/or HPA compatible
• Single-donor platelet concentrate for infants, HPA-1a negative

Procedure

Indicatie: bij bewezen immunologische refractoriteit na bloedplaatjestransfusie door HLA- en/of HPA-antistoffen, d.w.z. geen of zeer beperkte opbrengst direct na transfusie van bloedplaatjes (CCI na 1 uur <7.5). Een positief resultaat van de anti-HLA en/of HPA antistofscreening en HLA typering moet beschikbaar zijn of de testen moeten, in geval van urgentie, in uitvoering zijn of de stalen opgestuurd naar HILA. Hierbij de link naar het aanvraagformulier labotesten HILA .

Startup file

For a 1st request for HLA compatible platelets, the clinical biologist at Belgian Red Cross-Flanders should be contacted in advance to ensure indication. This also applies to reactivation of a file after temporary interruption. Expect a minimum of 3 working days before HLA compatible plaques can be available. Applicants from UZ Brussel, UZ Gent or UZ Leuven contact the medical day manager of the blood bank lab associated with their hospital. All other hospitals contact the HILA medical day manager (015 44 57 33). Subsequently, the HLA compatible platelet communication form should be sent, fully completed and signed, by the requesting hospital's blood bank to cyta.gent@rodekruis.be (provinces of East and West Flanders) or cyta.mechelen@rodekruis.be (provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant and Limburg). This way the medical secretariat, responsible for calling up donors, has all the necessary data.

An explanation of the full procedure can be found here.

Initial order and reorder

For the actual order of HLA compatible platelets, the Patient-Specific Blood Products Order Form should be sent to PRODIS Campus Mechelen fully completed and signed .

It is important that orders for HLA compatible platelets be submitted by the requesting hospital's blood bank at least three working days prior to the requested administration date.

Personal data

Patients' personal data are processed by Belgian Red Cross-Flanders (RKV), Motstraat 40, 2800 Mechelen as the data controller in order to provide, as a supplying blood establishment, patient-specific, compatible platelets. It is the responsibility of the requesting physician to inform the patient about this, in accordance with relevant data protection legislation. The data are kept in accordance with the legal provisions, as long as they are necessary for the missions, in particular "providing patient specific, compatible platelet concentrates". Under the conditions and according to the modalities determined by law, the patient has the right to access, correct, delete, limit or object to the processing of his personal data. We provide appropriate safeguards through standard data protection provisions or other appropriate safeguards. The patient can consult these with us. If the patient wishes to exercise their rights, they can contact us through the data protection officer by letter (Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, attn DPO, Motstraat 40, 2800 Mechelen) or by e-mail (DPO@rodekruis.be). If the patient wishes to file a complaint, he/she may do so with the supervisory authority: Data Protection Authority, Printing Press Street 35, 1000 Brussels, contact@apd-gba.be, tel 0032 2 247 48 00.

By signing the application, the applicant confirms that the patient has been informed about the processing of personal data by RKV.

In order for us to destroy patient data, in accordance with GDPR, please follow up properly with "foreseeable needs" and/or "discontinuation of needs."

Forms

• Application form for lab tests HILA
• Communication form HLA compatible platelets
• Order form patient-specific blood products

The ordering of compromised blood products should be done through the request paths of the blood bank labs of RKV according to the described procedure, which can be found here.

Products

• Erythrocyte concentrate, autologous
• Fresh frozen plasma, autologous
   

Procedure

A patient who is in good general health and/or has a rare blood type may undergo a weekly collection at the request of his treating physician beginning 42 days prior to a scheduled surgery, as long as the donor/patient hemoglobin value remains above 110 g/L.

At least one week before the desired first collection, the clinical biologist of the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders should be contacted through the blood bank lab to ensure the indication. Subsequently, the Autologous Donation Communication Form should be completed and sent by the blood bank lab of the requesting hospital to medischsecretariaat.gent@rodekruis.be (provinces of East and West Flanders) or medischsecretariaat.mechelen@rodekruis.be (provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant and Limburg). This way the medical secretariat, responsible for scheduling the autologous donation, has all the necessary data.

Iron substitution should be started at least one week before the first blood draw.

Autologous donations take place only at Donor Center Ghent and Donor Center Mechelen.

Blood bags are delivered to the blood bank of the hospital where the procedure will take place several days before the procedure. It is still necessary to have a cross-matching prior to transfusion.

If a positive serology for e.g. Hepatitis or HIV is detected, the blood product taken is destroyed after consultation with the treating physician and the further collection program is interrupted.

Blood products not administered to the patient should not be used for other patients and should be destroyed.

Form

• Communication Form Autologous Donation

Products

• Granulocytes from apheresis
   

Procedure

Startup file

Granulocytes are collected on request only. The procedure starts with a contact with the clinical biologist of the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders via the blood bank lab to ensure the indication. Subsequently, the Communication Form of Granulocytes from apheresis must be completed and sent by the blood bank lab of the requesting hospital to medical secretariat campus Mechelen. The recruitment of suitable donors goes through the requesting hospital. The selection of a suitable donor by the attending physician is followed by approval by the collection physician of the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders. 

Order and purchase

For the actual order of granulocytes from apheresis, the Order Form Patient-Specific Blood Products should be completed and sent to PRODIS campus Mechelen.

The collection is done on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from selected donors who are blood group compatible with the patient. Donors are stimulated under hospital supervision with G-CSF (Neupogen) and Dexamethasone 12h before collection. The same donor may donate granulocytes a maximum of three times per year and may not donate for three months thereafter. These procedures are only performed at the Mechelen donor center.

Forms

• Communication form granulocytes from apheresis
• Order form patient-specific blood products
• Application form for lab tests HILA

Products

Erythrocyte concentrate

• Erythrocyte concentrate, washed
• Erythrocyte concentrate for intrauterine transfusion (irradiated)
• Reconstituted whole blood for exchange transfusion (irradiated)
• Erythrocyte concentrate, frozen and thawed
• 4 Erythrocyte concentrates 'infant' prepared from 1 erythrocyte concentrate 'adult'
• Erythrocyte concentrate, HPA-1a negative

Platelet concentrate

• Platelet concentrate, washed
• Single-donor platelet concentrate, volume reduced (3 EEE)

Plasma

• Virus-inactivated cryosupernatant plasma
   

Procedure

The procedure is started with a contact with the clinical biologist of the Belgian Red Cross-Flanders through the blood bank lab to ensure indication.

For the actual ordering of patient-specific blood products, the Order Form Patient-Specific Blood Products must be completed and sent to PRODIS campus Mechelen at least 24 hours in advance .

Forms

• Order form patient-specific blood products