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Red Cross: Need for blood donors is constant Berlin NewsCHRISTINE BARCIA-January 30, 2025 The American Red Cross needs the help of state residents. The need for blood and platelet donations during January's National Blood Donor Month and... ...
PRP is an in-office treatment that takes about an hour and has no recovery or downtime. A blood sample is obtained, platelets are separated from the other elements of the blood like red blood cells, concentrated, then applied into the scalp under painless local anesthesia, and followed by p...
Specimens were collected for full blood count, iron, transferrin saturation, and ferritin assessment. Donor demographics were recorded. ID was indicated by a ferritin level of less than 20 ng/mL for men and less than 12 ng/mL for women. Anemia was defined as hemoglobin levels less than 12.5...
CONCLUSION ID is common among South African donors; low hemoglobin, gender, ethnicity, and past donation history is independently associated with ID. Recommendations aimed at protecting donor health may increase blood shortages in South Africa.doi:10.1111/trf.15001...
P‐BB‐30 | Donor Return Behavior in South Africa: A Comparison Between Mobile and Fixed Site Blood Drivesdoi:10.1111/trf.134_17554Jagirdar, H.Swanevelder, R.van den Berg, K.Lethola, P.Cockeran, R.Russell, A.Transfusion
Background: Blood donors are deferred from donating blood for several reasons, either permanently or temporarily. Anemia is a major cause for temporary deferral among donors. The aim of our study was to find the incidence of deferred donors due to anemia and to analyse the most common blood ...
M Vimal, S Sowmya, A Nishanthi and G Ramya. Evaluation of Blood Donor Deferral Causes: A Retrospective Study from South India. Annals of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 2016; 3 (6):605-11.Vimal M, Sowmya S, Nishanthi A, Ramya G. Evaluation of blood donor deferral causes: a ...
This study indicates potential improvement in blood safety with the implementation of a scripted donor interview and has relevance to blood safety in other sub㏒aharan African countries.doi:10.1111/trf.15288Mitchel, JosephineCuster, BrianKaidarova, Zhanna...
Background: Nucleic acid testing (NAT) of blood donor samples helps in detecting occult infections, shortens the window period and thereby enhances blood safety. Cost of NAT is a limiting factor in developing countries; but,as is universally known, quality always comes at a cost. Aim: To ...