background: transfusion services rely on transfusion reaction reporting to provide patient care and protect the blood supply. unnecessary discontinuation of blood is a major wastage of scarce blood, as well as man, hours and funds. the aim of the present study was to describe the main characteristics of acute transfusion reactions reported in the 4 hospital of kermanshah university of medical s...

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...

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 ...

Synonyms and related keywords: blood transfusions, blood products, acute hemolytic transfusion reactions, transfusion complications, blood product reactions, allergic transfusion reaction, blood type, circulatory volume overload, anaphylactic transfusion reaction, blood anaphylaxis, hemolytic reactions, allergic reactions, anaphylactic reaction, anaphylaxis, transfusion-related acute lung injur...

This chapter reviews a variety of acute, nonhemolytic, and noninfectious transfusion reactions, the most common of which are febrile, nonhemolytic transfusion reactions (FNHTRs) and allergic reactions. Other acute, nonhemolytic reactions are reported less frequently and include transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and anaphylactic or anaphylactoid reactions. Additional acute adverse ef...

lood transfusions are prevalent treatment procedures nowadays for various medical conditions that involve the administration of whole blood or separated components alone in combinations can be administered intravenously; these undertaken with therapeutic curative goals mind, they may carry associated risks and complications must weighed against benefits before initiating therapy. A typical subs...

Transfusion of blood products can lead to various transfusion reactions. Transfusion reactions that can cause pulmonary complications are: circulatory overload, anaphylactic reactions, bacterial contamination and transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI). TRALI is a rare but life-threatening complication of transfusion. TRALI is now the leading cause of transfusion-related fatalities report...

BACKGROUND In recent years, pulmonary transfusion reactions have gained increasing importance as serious adverse transfusion events. METHODS Review of the literature. RESULTS Pulmonary transfusion reactions are not extremely rare and, according to hemovigilance data, important causes of transfusion-induced major morbidity and death. They can be classified as primary with predominant pulmona...