Abstract
Preoperative placement of blood requests frequently overshoots the actual need resulting in unnecessary cross matching, which can be reduced by formulating maximum surgical blood ordering schedule (MSBOS). It is a table of elective surgical procedures, which lists the number of units of blood routinely cross-matched pre-operatively. MSBOS based on the past blood utilization records for different surgeries and keeping patients varia-bles in consideration wherever required would provide an efficient way of blood utilization and appropriate management of blood bank resources. The objective of this review throw eight on is to the blood utilization in various surgeries that can result in unnecessary cross-matching, wastage of blood bank resources, and financial losses to the patients could be reduced. Key words: Blood requests, crossmatch, polytrauma, Blood transfusion
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