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TransfusionWatch

Scan the wristband and the bag before every unit, then watch for a reaction through the transfusion.

Installs with BloodLine, whose screen it works on

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What it is

The bedside part of BloodLine. When the blood bank issues a bag, it waits on the ward until two people check it at the bed: the nurse scans the patient’s wristband and the bag, a second colleague who may check blood is named, and the pre-transfusion temperature, pulse and blood pressure are taken. The server — not the screen — refuses a wristband that is not the patient the bag was crossmatched for, a bag that is not the one issued, groups that are not compatible, a crossmatch older than the hospital allows (72 hours unless it sets its own) and an expired bag; a refusal is kept as a near miss the blood bank can see. A pass starts BloodLine’s transfusion record. Observations are then due at 15 minutes and at the hospital’s interval until the end, with late ones marked. A reaction sign the nurse ticks — fever, chills, rash, breathlessness, back pain, dark urine — or a temperature up a degree to 38, a systolic down 30 or oxygen under 92 makes the screen say stop; that transfusion is stopped with the reaction recorded on BloodLine’s record and can never be closed as no reaction.

Who uses it: Built for: Every specialty
Reads: The bags BloodLine has issued, the patient’s MRN on the wristband, the crossmatch and its time, the bag’s group and expiry
Writes: The two-person bedside check, passed or refused, observations through the transfusion, the stop and the reaction, on BloodLine’s record
Never: It does not crossmatch or issue blood — the blood bank does that — and it never starts a bag that failed the check or lets one person check alone.
Access: Only people whose role includes it — the clinic owner decides who
Your data: Full PHI. Hosted in Boston, United States. On uninstall: Bedside checks stop. Checks, observations and reactions already recorded are kept; BloodLine’s own start and end of a transfusion carry on.

How it works

Two people at the bedScan the wristband and the bag, name the second checker, take the vitals before it starts.
Observations on timeAt 15 minutes, then at the hospital’s interval; the screen shows what is due and what is late.
Stop on a reactionA sign or a change in the numbers says stop; record the reaction and the blood bank sees it.

Rules it keeps

What it does not do, by design. A listing with only benefits is an advertisement.

It does not crossmatch or issue blood — the blood bank does that — and it never starts a bag that failed the check or lets one person check alone.

AI in TransfusionWatch

AskQuestions about what is on screen — “What needs attention in TransfusionWatch today?” — answered with the records it read.

DraftSummaries and notes for the team, marked as drafts until a person signs.

Every answer shows its sources. Nothing AI writes is saved until a person accepts it.

See it on screen

TransfusionWatch — Transfusion Watch — Check every blood bag at the bed with two people, then watch for a reaction — 01Transfusion Watch — Check every blood bag at the bed with two people, then watch for a reactionCaptured from the running demo clinic

01Transfusion Watch — Check every blood bag at the bed with two people, then watch for a reactionCaptured from the running demo clinic

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Connected to

Read out of the code, not the brochure: each app below is here because one service queries the other’s tables. Install either side and the hand-over is already wired.

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Questions clinics ask

What does TransfusionWatch do?

Scan the wristband and the bag before every unit, then watch for a reaction through the transfusion. The bedside part of BloodLine. When the blood bank issues a bag, it waits on the ward until two people check it at the bed: the nurse scans the patient’s wristband and the bag, a second colleague who may check blood is named, and the pre-transfusion temperature, pulse and blood pressure are taken. The server — not the screen — refuses a wristband that is not the patient the bag was crossmatched for, a bag that is not the one issued, groups that are not compatible, a crossmatch older than the hospital allows (72 hours unless it sets its own) and an expired bag; a refusal is kept as a near miss the blood bank can see. A pass starts BloodLine’s transfusion record. Observations are then due at 15 minutes and at the hospital’s interval until the end, with late ones marked. A reaction sign the nurse ticks — fever, chills, rash, breathlessness, back pain, dark urine — or a temperature up a degree to 38, a systolic down 30 or oxygen under 92 makes the screen say stop; that transfusion is stopped with the reaction recorded on BloodLine’s record and can never be closed as no reaction.

What data does TransfusionWatch read and write?

TransfusionWatch reads the bags BloodLine has issued, the patient’s MRN on the wristband, the crossmatch and its time, the bag’s group and expiry and writes the two-person bedside check, passed or refused, observations through the transfusion, the stop and the reaction, on BloodLine’s record. Its data class is Full PHI. Every app works on the same patient record — nothing is copied into a silo.

What does TransfusionWatch deliberately not do?

It does not crossmatch or issue blood — the blood bank does that — and it never starts a bag that failed the check or lets one person check alone.

What happens to our data if we uninstall TransfusionWatch?

Bedside checks stop. Checks, observations and reactions already recorded are kept; BloodLine’s own start and end of a transfusion carry on.

Is TransfusionWatch available today?

Yes — TransfusionWatch is live in clinics today. Set up your practice on MedAppz and install it from your dashboard.

Want to see TransfusionWatch running on your own patients?

Tell us what you run and we will show you this app inside a practice shaped like yours — or answer the question the page above did not.

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