LESSON 4: RA 7719 - DEFINITION OF TERMS Flashcards
Refers to human blood, processed or unprocessed and includes blood components, its products and derivatives.
Blood or Blood Product
A laboratory or institution with the capability to recruit and screen blood donors, collect, process, store, transport and issue blood for transfusion and provide information and/or education on blood transfusion transmissible diseases.
Blood bank or center
A blood bank that exists for profit, money or any material gain earned out of sale of, or exchange for, blood or blood products which profit, money or any material gain are not used solely for the operation and maintenance of the blood bank service
Commercial Blood Bank
A blood bank which is located within the premises of a hospital and which can perform compatibility testing of blood (
Hospital based blood bank
An institution or facility duly authorized by the Department of Health to recruit and screen donors and collect blood.
Blood collection unit
one who donates blood on one’s own volition or initiative and without monetary compensation.
Voluntary blood donors
diseases which may be transmitted as a result of blood transfusion, including AIDS, Hepatitis-B, Malaria and Syphilis;
Blood transfusion transmissible diseases
Any other person to whom the _________ delegates the responsibility of carrying out the provisions of this Act;
Secretary of Health
an individual included in the list of qualified voluntary blood donors referred to in Section
4, paragraph (e), who is ready to donate blood when needed in his/her community.
Walking blood donor
○ Any unit, office, institution providing any of the
blood transfusion services, which can be a Blood Bank, Blood Center, a Blood Collection Unit or a Blood Station.
○ Defined by Administrative Order No. 2010-0001 Policies and Guidelines for the Philippine National Blood Services and Blood Services Networks
Blood Service Facility
A government or private hospital or PNRC
chapter which has not been licensed as a blood center but has been authorize by the DOH to store and issue blood and blood products, and perform compatibility testing, when necessary.
Blood station
A blood service facility where blood collection procedure is done in which whole blood is removed, a selected component separated and the remainder returned to the donor.
Apheresis facility
A hospital with a licensed clinical laboratory capable of red cell typing and crossmatching and which does not have any blood service facility but which only receives blood and blood components for blood transfusion as needed.
End user hospital
A licensed/accredited non hospital health facility without a licensed clinical laboratory but which administers blood transfusion.
Defined in AO 2010-0001
End-User Non-Hospital Health Facility
○ Advocacy and promotion of voluntary blood donation and healthy lifestyle
○ Provision of whole blood and packed red cells
○ Storage, issuance,transport and distribution of whole blood and packed red cells
○ Compatibility testing of red cell units, if hospital-based
Blood Station
