FAILURE MODES OF THE TRANSFUSION PROCESS - INTEREST OF THE SAFETY PREVISIONAL ANALYSIS OF OPERATIONS

The methods used for the safety previsional analysis of operations rep resent an interesting set of tools to follow the so-called transfusion process, defined as all the steps from donors sensitization to recipi ents follow-up. FMECA (Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis) can be used as a prevention tool, independently of any dysfunction in the process. Of course, it can also be used following a failure, in or der to analyse its causes and to apply specific corrections. Operation safety, quality insurance, epidemiologic surveillance and safety moni toring act in synergy. These three aspects of transfusion safety const itute a dynamic system.