POLYCLINIC FOR TRANSFUSION MEDICINE

Head of the polyclinic: Ass. Prof. Sunita Delić- Ćustendil, specialist in transfusion medicine

Head nurse: Indira Jahić, engineer of medical laboratory

Telephone: ++ 387 35 303 523

Quality improvement and education: Zulejha Sadiković, engineer of medical laboratory

Telephone: ++ 387 35 303 557
E-mail:info@ukctuzla.ba

Contact telephone:

++ 387 35 303 548-info desk- information for patients

++ 387 35 303 557- info desk- information for voluntary blood donators
++ 387 35 303 514- organization and promotion of blood donation

Working hours:

Voluntary blood donators; working days 8am- 3 pm,

Outpatients; working days 8am-12 noon,

Immunohematological and serological testings: working days 8am- 11am,

Patients who use oral anticoagulants: working days 10am- 12 noon,

Laboratory blood tests issuing: working days 3 pm- 4 pm.

Polyclinic services and activities:

Coordination and promotion of voluntary blood donation in the Tuzla Canton area in cooperation with municipal’s Red Cross organizations and trade unions, citizen associations, schools and faculties.
Collection of blood, plasma and other blood components from voluntary unpaid donors and clinical utilization
Production, storage and distribution of collected blood products
Serological, immunohematological testing of blood donors
Keeping records of blood donors who are temporarily or permanently excluded from the blood donation process
Monitoring the need for blood and blood products for clinical utilization
Monitoring of the rational use of blood and blood products
Monitoring and analyzing the effects of transfusion treatment
Diagnostic, serological and immunohematological examination of patients
Examination of hemostasis disorders and monitoring patints using oral anticoagulation therapy
Prenatal immunohematological and serological testings
Donor and therapeutic apheresis procedure
Isolation and cryopreservation of stem cell grafts in autologous stem cell and allogeneic blood transplantation
Maintaining a web-based reporting system for keeping, processing and reporting records on serious adverse events and reactions to blood and blood components
Continuous education of health professionals in the field of transfusion medicine
Active consultations in clinical transfusion related to blood therapy, coagulation disorders and hemovigilance to clinical services.

ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

Department for collection of blood and blood components
Department for immunohmatology, hemostasis and thrombosis
Department for production and preparation of blood components
Department for pre- transfusion tests, therapy and distribution of blood medicines
Department for the detection of bloodborne infectious diseases

OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENTS:

Outpatient department for prenatal protection
Outpatient department for control of anticoagulant therapy
Outpatient department for pre- donation blood donors testing
Outpatient department for therapeutic phlebotomy

COUNSELING:

Counseling offers consultations for blood donors with reactive and unclear immunohmatologic and serologic tests results

Polyclinic has mobile professional team who collects blood reserves in the Tuzla Canton area, thus ensuring an adequate blood supply to support our local community.

PROFESSIONAL STAFF:

8 specialists in transfusion medicine

2 resident doctors

1 graduated nurse/technician

6 engineers of medical laboratory

18 medical laboratory technicians with high medical school

1 medical associate

3 nonmedical workers

DEPARTMENTS

1. Department for collection of blood and blood components

Head of the department: Dr. Svetlana Jović- Lacković, MSc., specialist in transfusion medicine

laboratory technician in charge: Jasmin Silajdžić, engineer of medical laboratory

Services:

Management and planning of a sustainable blood supply according to hospital demands,
Preparing of the annual plan of blood donation actions and its periodical evaluation
Continuing education and motivation of citizens towards the act of blood donation
Collection of blood from voluntary donors at the hospital and outside the hospital
Keeping records about temporarily and permanently rejected blood donors
Monitoring of adverse reactions in blood donors
Counseling of blood donors with reactive and unclear results on markers of bloodborne diseases and results of immunohematological tests
Outpatient therapeutic phlebotomy
Continuous education of health professionals in transfusion medicine

Within the department:

Outpatient department for pre- donation blood donors testing
Mobile team for blood collection at the Tuzla Canton area
Counseling for blood donors with reactive and unclear immunohmatologic and serologic tests results

Department for immunohematology, hemostasis and thrombosis

Chief of the department: Dr. Jasmina Petrov- Rašlić, specialist in transfusion medicine

Laboratory technician in charge: Sadeta Joldić, engineer of medical laboratory

The main services of department are immunohematological tests for outpatients and voluntary blood donors, tests of hemostasis and thrombosis for outpatients and inpatients, as well as monitoring of patients on oral anticoagulation therapies.

Immunohematological diagnostics of voluntary blood donors
Immunohematological diagnostics of the pregnant women and outpatients
Phenotyping of erythrocite antigens and identification of irregular antibodies
Laboratory diagnosis of hemostasis disorders in outpatients
Laboratory diagnosis of hemostasis disorders in inpatients
Laboratory testing of patients on oral anticoagulant therapy
Administration of oral anticoagulation therapy for outpatient and inpatients
Education of residence and other health professional staff in transfusion medicine

Department for production and preparation of blood components

Chief of the department: Primarius Dr. Slavica Mott- Divković, specialist in transfusion medicine

Laboratory technician in charge: Hajrija Suljkanović, engineer of medical laboratory

The department deals with the preparation, production and storage of blood products obtained from voluntary blood donors, which are used as replacement therapy and substitution drug in clinical transfusion medicine and practice.

the preparation and storage of red blood cells
the preparation and storage of platelets
the preparation and storage of plasma
the preparation and storage of cryoprecipitates
hematopoietic stem cell harvest apheresis for autologous and allogeneic transplantation
cryopreservation of HSC for clinical application
low- temperature and standard temperature storage of HSC
continuing education of health professional staff

4. Department for the detection of bloodborne infectious diseases

Chief of the department: Dr. Aida Žabić MSc., specialist in transfusion medicine

Laboratory technician in charge: Zukić Edis, graduated technician in health care

The department offers laboratory testing and screening of donors for risk of transmissible bloodborne diseases ( Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV and Syphilis).
Serological testing for viral markers of the pregnant women and patients
Education of residence and other health professional staff in transfusion medicine

5. Department for pre- transfusion tests, therapy and distribution of blood medicines

Chief of the department: Dr. Ahida Suljkanović Mahmutović, specialist in transfusion medicine

Laboratory technician in charge: Vildana Sulejmanović, engineer of medical laboratory diagnostics

The department works 24 hours and offers:

Pre- transfusion immunohematological diagnostics of inpatients.
Immunohematological testing of the specificity and clinical significance of the patient’s anti- erythrocyte antibodies
Pre- transfusion red blood cell antigen phenotyping and genotyping
Preparation and issuing blood products
Specialist consultations
Processing and recording of reported post- transfusion reactions
Education of residence and other health professional staff in transfusion medicine

Polyclinic for Transfusion Medicine has its own RGB Renovatio software and is partly networked with a Laboratory Information System (LIS) and administrative system of the University Clinical Center Tuzla.