BLOOD PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHOD USING RBC DEFORMABILITY-BASED METRICS

摘要

A method for using red blood cell deformability testing to improve management of blood product comprising RBC, the method comprising: generating deformability data for red blood cells corresponding to a respective unit of blood product; correlating the deformability data with red blood cell viability or efficacy based on any available direct or indirect in vivo performance data; obtaining a representation of quality for the respective unit of blood product; and based on the representation of quality assigning a relative rank to and/or timing a transfer of the respective unit in an inventory of stored blood product units.