Every blood center must determine blood donor eligibility criteria for donors with medical conditions, often based on very limited published data and variable practice. This manuscript briefly outlines possible impacts of donor medical conditions on donor and recipient safety and product quality, and ...
TheBermuda Hospitals Boardannounced revisedblood donoreligibility criteria used in the Bermuda Blood Donor Centre. A spokesperson said, “Eligibility criteria are part of the standards used to ensure the safest possible voluntary blood supply for people in Bermuda who need transfusions. Other standards ...
Individuals with certain medical conditions or history—such as CJD or having received specific transplants—or on blood thinners are not suitable candidates, and may experience severe complications if they try to donate (a full list of eligibility criteria is provided by the American Red Cross). ...
Conclusion: Differences in Hb measurement and eligibility criteria, particularly longer donation intervals and iron supplementation in women, are associated with variations in low-Hb deferral rates. These insights could help improve both blood donation service efficiency and donor care....
In Australia, the minimum age for blood donors is 18 years and donors can donate until any age if they continue to fulfil all other blood donation eligibility criteria. All blood donors have haemoglobin levels assessed prior to blood donation via a finger prick test which is analysed on the ...
In 2001, the criteria for blood donor eligibility in Italy were modified by a ministerial decree from a permanent deferral for "men who have sex with men" to an individual risk assessment of sexual behaviours. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of this change in donor ...
This comprehensive effort should include educating and motivating more individuals especially from the rural areas to be involved in blood donation, developing rational and evidence-based selection criteria for donor eligibility, designing a donor follow-up mechanism to encourage more future donations, ...
In transfusing blood into the recipient, donor blood of the appropriate type is passed by gravity from a container down through a plastic tube and into a vein of the recipient’s arm. The procedure is accomplished slowly, and two hours may be needed to infuse 450 millilitres of blood into...
You're being urged to help so people don't have to wait for medical procedures. "Small changes in blood donor turnout can have a huge impact on the availability of blood products and dramatic consequences for those in need of an emergency blood transfusion,” said Dr. Eric Gehrie, Executi...
The transfusion of RBCs is one of the most common in-hospital medical procedures, second only to vaccination. The blood supply is dependent on altruistic blood donors, and donated RBCs are stored in blood banks for up to 42 days until transfusion. Defining and characterizing the criteria for qu...