An Emergency Blood Allocation Approach Considering Blood Group Compatibility in Disaster Relief Operations

Zu-Jun Ma; Ke-Ming Wang; Ying Dai

doi:10.1007/s13753-018-0212-7

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Zu-Jun Ma, Ke-Ming Wang, Ying Dai. An Emergency Blood Allocation Approach Considering Blood Group Compatibility in Disaster Relief Operations[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019, 10(1): 74-88. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0212-7

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Zu-Jun Ma, Ke-Ming Wang, Ying Dai. An Emergency Blood Allocation Approach Considering Blood Group Compatibility in Disaster Relief Operations[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2019, 10(1): 74-88. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0212-7

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An Emergency Blood Allocation Approach Considering Blood Group Compatibility in Disaster Relief Operations

doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0212-7

Zu-Jun Ma^1,2,
Ke-Ming Wang^{2,3
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Ying Dai^{2
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1 School of Management, Yangtze University, Jinzhou 434023, China;
2 Institute for Logistics and Emergency Management, School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China;
3 School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71502146, 71672154, and 90924012) and Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 16YJA630038).

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

Large-scale sudden-onset disasters may cause massive injuries and thus place great pressure on the emergency blood supplies of local blood banks. When blood is in short supply, blood products gathered urgently to a local blood center should be appropriately allocated to blood banks in the affected area. Moreover, ABO/ Rh(D) compatibilities among blood groups must be considered during emergency situations. To minimize the total unmet demand of blood products considering the optimal ABO/Rh(D)-compatible blood substitution scheme, a mixed integer programming model is developed and solved efficiently by using a greedy heuristic algorithm. Finally, a numerical example derived from the emergency blood supply scenario of the Wenchuan Earthquake is presented to verify the proposed model and algorithm. The results show that considering ABO/Rh(D)-compatible blood substitution can remarkably increase the efficiency of emergency blood allocation while lowering blood shortage, and the preference order of possible ABO/Rh(D)-compatible substitutions has an influence on the allocation solution.
- Blood group compatibility,
- Blood substitution,
- Disaster relief,
- Emergency blood allocation,
- Greedy heuristic algorithm

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