Blood Bank / Transfusion Medicine
The Transfusion Service/Blood Bank is an AABB and CAP Accredited facility that provides comprehensive transfusion support for patients of West Virginia University Hospitals in Morgantown. Some specific clinical programs that regularly have unique transfusion needs and utilize our services include Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center (an American College of Surgeons nationally-verified Level 1 trauma center), Osborn Hematopoietic Malignancy and Transplantation Program, and Heart and Vascular Institute. We routinely provide a variety of red cell and plasma products, platelets, cryoprecipitate, clotting factor concentrates, and Rh immune globulin. Also readily available are modified blood products with use of our irradiator and blood cell washers as well as pediatric and neonatal aliquots. Pre-transfusing testing, including red cell and platelet antibody screening and crossmatching, is performed on state-of-the-art, automated, solid-phase testing equipment. Clinical criteria for transfusion of blood components and products are reviewed, monitored, and audited by Blood Bank staff and the hospital’s Blood Utilization Committee. For specific indications, special components and services are available upon consultation with the Blood Bank director or on-call pathologist.
We are dually supplied by ITxMSM and American Red Cross. ITxMSM provides a blood donation program and therapeutic phlebotomy service twice per month at University Town Centre in Morgantown.