Donor blood wastage: a study from blood bank Chamba (H.P)

Whole Blood Donor Deferral Causes in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital Blood Bank from South India

The safety of any blood transfusion begins with the proper selection of donors. The physician must take care that removal of blood does not harm the donor and that the potential risk to the recipient due to disease conditions in donor must be kept to minimum. All blood donors should be in enough good health to be able to tolerate a short period of hypotension and bradycardia that occurs due to ...

Discrepancy in ABO Blood Grouping in a Blood Donor: A Case Report

Detection of ABO blood groups through agglutination is the basis of pre-transfusion testing. However, weak agglutination reactions may be obtained with reagent antibodies and are a result of weak expression of A and B antigens on red blood cell surface which may cause a discrepancy in blood group typing. Here, we report a donor which showed discrepancy between red blood cells (forward) and seru...

The study of seroprevalence of human cytomegalovirus in healthy blood donors referring to Fars blood bank

Introduction: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection is most often asymptomatic in immuno-competent individuals and has lifelong latency especially in leukocytes. However, CMV is a major cause of infection and death in immuno-compromised patients. Transfusion transmitted HCMV (TT-HCMV) can cause serious morbidity and mortality in certain patients who are at risk. In this study, we evaluated t...

A febrile blood donor.

A 4-day-old neonate born prematurely at 29 weeks gestation developed thrombocytopenia (platelet count 43 10/L) with associated severe pulmonary and intracranial hemorrhaging. Urgent transfusions with 10 mL/kg of packed red cells and 10 mL/kg of platelet concentrate were given. These were sourced from blood donated 2 days earlier in Singapore by a 21-yearold female university student who was cli...

Lean six Sigma to reduce blood wastage.