Introduction . Haemovigilance is the set of surveillance procedures covering entire blood transfusion chain, from donation and processing its components, through to their provision patients, including patient follow-up. The United Kingdom (UK) haemovigilance system has been developing for 25 years one world's leading hemovigilance systems. Aim — review analysis adverse events in UK service 2021...

AIMS Annual evaluation of blood transfusion preparation administration at the University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic as a contribution to the European Union haemovigilance system. METHODS Analysis of blood transfusion preparations released from the Department of Blood Transfusion of the above university hospital and laboratory examination results in receivers of these products for the ye...

haemovigilance is a system with standard program to cover the entire transfusion chain, monitor, evaluate and analyse the data to improve patients’ safety. we report the implemented haemovigilance system in hospitals and transfusion reactions (tr) in iran. methods and materials: this was a prospective descriptive study. the national reporting system for transfusion incidents was introduced in j...

Anna Papa, Constantina Politis, Athina Tsoukala, Aikaterini Eglezou, Vassiliki Bakaloudi, Maria Hatzitaki, and Katerina Tsergouli Author affi liations: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (A. Papa, K. Tsergouli); National Coordinating Haemovigilance Centre of the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece (C. Politis); AHEPA University General Hosp...

Although acute non-haemolytic febrile or allergic reactions (ATRs) are a common complication of transfusion and often result in little or no morbidity, prompt recognition and management are essential. The serious hazards of transfusion haemovigilance organisation (SHOT) receives 30-40 reports of anaphylactic reactions each year. Other serious complications of transfusion, such as acute haemolys...

BACKGROUND Blood availability is an issue of concern in countries of sub-Saharan Africa where both the demand and discard rates of blood are high. Although some degree of attention is paid when transfusion reactions occur in recipients, no information is available on donor reactions in this setting. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out in order to obtain some data on adverse reactions (ARs) ...