The Recovery Phase implies that blood inventory levels have begun to increase and are expected to be maintained at a level that would enable hospitals to move from Red to Amber and subsequently to a Green phase, or from Amber to Green phase.
The recovery of hospital transfusion activity and restoration of optimal inventories must be cautious and gradual. All participants in the blood contingency plan must act cautiously and consistently as recommended by the NEBMC and/or BC EBMC. Many elective medical and surgical transfusions will be permitted to proceed, but may be limited in terms of the number of procedures or units allotted per procedure. There is a danger that a rapid increase in demand (as a response to the backlog of transfusion-related procedures) could result in a return to the previous shortage stage or worse.
