Para-T System · The Para-T System A quick blood group device to match in situ the donor bag and the receptor arm during a blood transfusion, avoiding major incompatible errors.

The Para-T System ""A quick blood group device to match in situ the donor bag and the receptor arm during a blood transfusion, avoiding major incompatible errors"". The Para-T system is a double identifier device (two plastic cassettes) designed on the one side, to be attached to a bag containing whole blood or Red Blood Cells and on the other, to the catheter inserted in the patient vein allowing a direct, quick (less than a minute) and permanent blood group identification (ABO typing).The ABO tests in the bag and in the patient’ catheter is kept visible from the donation moment till the end of the patient hospitalization, allowing a visual comparison of the blood groups between both cassettes and detecting labelling errors. The technology reduces 4 ABO re-checking during the blood component processing (from a total of 7) reducing staff costs. Combining bag and patient cassettes, the Para-T system conforms a Transfusional Safety System that prevent ABO incompatible transfusions by means of a visual checking (simple solution) or using a PDA QR code reader that controls a solenoid valve incorporated in the tubing system to prevent automatically the transfusion if both bloods are incompatible (complex solution). The performance of the proposed Safety System is as efficient to avoid mistakes as the most advanced electronic solutions based on personalized wristbands and a sophisticated supportive software offered by some large pharmaceutical firms, but at one tenth of the cost. The market applications for the new Transfusional Safety Solution are huge as many developing and developed countries cannot afford the expensive electronic solutions and Para-T brings a cheap option to the marketplace with equal or even superior performance. ""