The tragedy of the HIV blood transfusions from RFID test track (1)

According to the evening news, Wuhan, Xi'an, Jiangxia District Lake SI town 38-year-old Zhang Kai last September was diagnosed with AIDS, and confirm with him in 1997 of a traffic accident sustained serious head injuries, Daye city II hospital treatment process, repeated blood transfusions.

According to the survey, from 1996 to 1997 in the hospital for surgery patients who received blood transfusions, 80 people infected with AIDS, it was also AIDS to his wife or children, nearly 100 people.

This is a heinous and very sad news.

From Zhang Kai 10 years of experience, you can see that as a result of HIV infection and bring him to a series of tragic and sad.

First of all, in a car accident where he unknowingly, is "one deaf and dumb", is a kind of a lifelong disease and curse.

But in the later more than ten years of long life, he suffered increasingly extreme weakness in the body, and pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases due to attacks that he took before and after the 7 million Yuan. Make an affluent family become poor.

Until last September, Zhang Kai sudden coughing, chest tightness and coma, in Wuhan City medical treatment centres where, when the doctor was informed he had Daye city II hospital lost blood, blood test results confirmed his suffering from AIDS.

This is unfortunate in very lucky.

Zhang Kai to obtain a country free of antiviral treatment. However, subsequent chain reaction but come one after another: villagers basically broke with his family, his son in school are also affected, even appeared in a scene from the villagers ' panic move. Even more puzzling is that Zhang Kai to Daye city hospital, seek in vain … so far

Blood transfusion system in China is not yet perfect stage, others offer a blood transfusion or accept.

It must be borne in mind in addition to Zhang kai, "Henan" AIDS village — the man House CHOY County village early in 1999, the village has 42, 44 deaths in 2000, in which young people account for 30%, almost all are dying of AIDS ... Painful lesson. Blood transfusion safety and when do secure tracking in place to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies, the current international has developed for medical laboratory tracking system, effective control of the safety of transfusion procedures.

New RFID identification system for medical laboratory tracking

AmbientID released UHF UFHGen2RFID system solutions, the program used to track those from hospitals to the laboratory for diagnostic test specimen bottle, specimen bottle containing human tissue or blood which may provide the location of the sample bottle.

According to RobertGrenley (AmbientID business development Executive Vice President) said that, in the spring of 2008, the company first to potential customers, mainly in the laboratory, to understand tracing the flow of human tissue and blood samples (a round trip to the hospital and laboratory, sometimes store) what are the issues that need to be addressed.