Table 2 Equipment (a): essential equipment for a four-bedded BMT unit; (b) essential imaging. All except MRI maybe required on an emergency basis and should ideally be in-house. MRI maybe outsourced locally; (c) essential additional consumables for BMT harvest and central venous access.

From: Setting up and sustaining blood and marrow transplant services for children in middle-income economies: an experience-driven position paper on behalf of the EBMT PDWP

 

Units

a: Equipment

 Blood Cold Chain Box (insulated cool box)

2

 Blood pressure apparatus

4

 Infusion pumps

4

 Laminar flow sterile hood

1

 Medication Trolley

2

 Nebulizer

1

 Oxygen cylinder

2

 Patient monitor (including O2 saturation)

4

 Portable Crash Box/resuscitation trolley

1

 Portable Pulse Oximeter

2

 Refrigerator +4 °C with temperature monitoring and alarm

2

 Syringe pumps

4

 Tube sealer

1

 Weighing scales (regular and for infants)

4

 Wheel chair

1

 X-ray viewer

1

b: Imaging

 

 CT Scan

 

 Electrocardiogram (ECG)

 

 MRI

 

 Ultrasound (including Doppler) and echocardiogram

 

 X-ray

 

c: Marrow collection and central venous access

 

 Blood bag spike with Luer lock connection

 

 Blood transfusion set (200 µ mesh)

 

 Disposable Bone Marrow Needles

 

 Standard blood bank bags

 

 Transparent film dressings

 

 Tunneled central lines

 
  1. Equipment included in WHO Priority Medical Devices for cancer and/or children are noted in bold.
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