Optimal blood donation screening

Routine diabetes screening in blood donation campaigns.

BACKGROUND Data from the National Health and Morbidity Survey 2011 showed that 20.8% of Malaysians above 30 years have diabetes. 10.1%of them are undiagnosed. Mobile blood drives could complement the public health department efforts in diabetes screening for early detection of the illness. AIMS This study aims to determine the necessity of diabetes screening as a routine screening program dur...

Blood Donation

Toward Optimal Laboratory Use False-Positive HIV-1 Test Results in a Low-Risk Screening Setting of Voluntary Blood Donation

Context.—Persons at risk of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infection have been classified incorrectly as HIV infected because of Western blot results, but the frequency of false-positive Western blot results is unknown. Objectives.—To determine the frequency of false-positive HIV-1 Western blot results in US blood donors and to make projections to other screened populations. Secondarily...

Blood Donation: Survey Results

A survey of 1735 blood centers (131) and hospitals (1604) in the US showed that blood collection rate per thousand US population of donor age between 18 and 65 years decreased from 85.6 (total number of collections, 13.890) in 2004 compared to 88.0 (total number of collections, 14.259) in 2001 (2.7 % decrease). As blood utilization increases with the advent of more complex therapeutic intervent...

BLood donaTion and coLLecTion

The first documented transfusion of blood in humans occurred in 1667, but it was not until almost 300 years later that transfusion become a therapeutic practicality.1 Landsteiner’s landmark discovery in the early 1900s of blood groups and agglutinating antibodies was the key that unlocked this therapeutic pathway. The development of anticoagulants, blood preservatives, and sterile collection se...