Project of Computer-aided Management of Therapeutical Apheresis

Abstract

The great increase in hemapheresis units activity that occurred during the last years caused the need for a computer-aided management (1, 2).

We present a project for a data base system able to manage therapeutical apheresis (3). The program consists of five sections.

a) Patient's file card: it allows to record anamnesis, examination and blood test results easily and under computer's guidance.

b) Choice of therapeutic protocol: Therapeutic protocol is fixed in this section (device to be used, apheretic method, plasma volume to be processed, blood tests before and after apheresis).

c) Procedures: It provides procedure's data entry and guides the operator during the treatment on the ground of therapeutical protocol.

d) Data processing: It allows statistics on data placed in the data base.

e) Registers: It includes both a general register and the possibility of search by disease, device and method.