Definitions

Blood Bank means a facility equipped and staffed to procure, draw, process, store and/or dispense human whole blood and/or its components and/or derivatives. Blood Bank Director is a physician with training and experience in blood bank techniques who has the responsibility and authority for all medical and technicalpoliciesand proceduresofa blood bank and/or transfusion service, and for supportive services that relate to the safety of patients and donors. Component means a product removed from whole blood by physical procedures. Department means the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Derivative means a product removed from whole blood by chemical procedures. Physician means a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy registered by the Board of Registration in Medicine under M.G.L. c. 112, § 2. Transfusion means the administration of whole blood or any of its components and/or derivatives to humans. Transfusion Service means a service within a hospital designed, equipped, and staffed to dispense and/or administer whole blood and/or its components and/or derivatives by transfusion to humans.