Hemotherapy guidelines

As Hemotherapy guidelines are taken by the German Federal Medical Association and the Paul Ehrlich Institute referred to the collection of blood and blood components and to the use of blood products issued (PEI) guidelines.

In accordance with Section 18 of the Transfusion Act , the German Medical Association, in agreement with the competent higher federal authority (here: PEI), defines the state of medical science and technology for the use of blood and blood products in medicine.

The guidelines contain, in particular, specifications for the collection of blood and blood components, ie the implementation of blood donations and the production and storage of blood reserves . The implementation of blood transfusions and documentation, testing for infection markers , quality assurance in the use of blood products and their monitoring as well as the qualifications and tasks of the persons involved are regulated in detail .

The guidelines are not legally binding for the participating doctors, but a doctor who deviates from them would have to prove his medically correct procedure in the event of a dispute.

Web links

• Guideline for the collection of blood and blood components and for the use of blood products (guideline haemotherapy). General amendment 2017 .
  • Guidelines of the German Medical Association (2017)
  • Announcement of the guideline for the collection of blood and blood components and the use of blood products (guideline haemotherapy) 2017
  • Resolution of the German Medical Association on erratum / amendments to the guideline on the collection of blood and blood components and the use of blood products (haemotherapy guideline), overall amendment 2017 .

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• Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Vol. 104, issue 23, 2007, p. A 1682 ff.
• Announcement of the Change in Hemotherapy Guidelines (2007)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Biscoping: New guidelines for hemotherapy. In: Anästh. Intensivmed. 47, 2006, pp. 26-30.