Traceability of blood products from blood banks to patients beds in the university hospitals centers of Bouaké and Treichville, Côte D´Ivoire

The evaluation of the traceability of blood components in Teaching Hospital Center (THC) of Bouaké and Treichville, Côte d’Ivoire aimed to describe and compare the traceability of blood components in their THC for the improvement of the procedures of blood flow in the hospital. In this descriptive, prospective, transversal and comparative study, data were collected using a questionnaire during some exhaustive recruitment of the purchase order forms of all the units of blood components delivered from August 4th to October 3rd, 2014. Overall, 2,152 units of BP were enlisted and drawn. The results of the evaluation reveal that for 13 purchase orders (0.6) percent of the recruitments, the prescribing blood whose identity appeared on the order form did not exist in the care’s department. In 166 cases on 2,152 realized recruitments, that is 7.7 percent of the cases, the patient mentioned on the purchase order form was not known of the care’s department. 424 units of PSL are 19.7 percent of the served PSL did not arrive in the care’s department, in the bed of the sick person. These results are low in THC of Bouaké which accommodate a blood transfusion service. At conclusion, the promiscuity or cohabitation reduce the blood component decrease.