Manual on the Management, Maintenance And Use of Blood Cold Chain Equipment

The blood cold chain is a series of interconnected activities involving equipment, personnel and processes critical for the safe storage and transportation of blood from collection to transfusion. This publication contains information in relation to: storage and transportation of blood and blood components; blood storage equipment, relating to refrigerators, plasma freezers and platelet agitators; other blood cold chain devices; equipment installation; organising the cold blood chain; preventative maintenance, care and repair of equipment; monitoring and evaluation; and guidelines for the development of training programmes.World Health Organization is the author of 'Manual on the Management, Maintenance And Use of Blood Cold Chain Equipment ', published 2005 under ISBN 9789241546737 and ISBN 9241546735.