Dr. Rekha T S

Dr Rekha T S is a Transfusion Medicine Specialist in Shimoga with 24 years of experience. She practices at Sahyadri Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Harakere.

She specialises in blood banking operations, blood component therapy, immunohematology, and transfusion safety protocols. Her clinical focus includes managing transfusion reactions, therapeutic apheresis, and donor screening.

Area of Expertise

Blood Banking and Donor Management

Dr Rekha T S manages voluntary blood donation, donor qualification, donor safety, blood collection protocols, and whole blood processing. She performs donor physical screening, haemoglobin estimation, aseptic blood collection, donor adverse reaction management, and pre-donation counselling.

Blood Component Separation and Therapy

Dr Rekha addresses clinical requirements for packed red blood cells, fresh frozen plasma, random donor platelets, single donor platelets, and cryoprecipitate. Interventions include automated blood component separation, component storage monitoring, blood product quality control, plateletpheresis, and leukoreduction filtration.

Immunohematology and Compatibility Testing

Dr T S Rekha evaluates complex blood group discrepancies, irregular red cell antibodies, haemolytic disease of the newborn, autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, and multi-transfused patient blood matching. Diagnostic procedures include forward and reverse blood grouping, major and minor cross-matching, direct antiglobulin testing, indirect Coombs testing, and red cell antibody identification.

Transfusion Safety and Hemovigilance

Dr Rekha TS cares for hospital patients requiring acute blood transfusion for severe trauma bleeding, post-delivery haemorrhage, surgical blood loss, chronic anaemia, and transfusion reactions. Management includes acute transfusion reaction workup, hemovigilance reporting, infectious disease screening for hepatitis and HIV, massive transfusion protocol activation, and rational blood usage audits.

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