Transfusion and COVID-19

Alsace was particularly and early on affected by SARS-CoV-2 and quickly implemented a reduction in scheduled admissions and non-urgent surgical interventions, making it possible to reduce requests for labile blood products linked to non-urgent surgical procedures. as has been reported in the literature; the population containment measures also led to a major reduction in traffic - and consequently accidents on the public roads. At the same time, other demands for blood products related to activities such as onco-hematology were little affected. Finally, the blood banks have adapted their collection procedure. To answer these questions, we propose to conduct a retrospective study over two parallel periods of 2019 and 2020 of the consumption of blood products on the one hand and the availability of stocks on the other hand.