BACKGROUND Blood transfusion is always associated with some level of risk. Haemovigilance is a risk monitoring system integral to the practice of transfusion medicine whose ultimate purpose is to improve the quality and safety of transfusion therapy. OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of haemovigilance to blood safety, including the approaches that some countries have taken to institute ha...

Background and aims: Haemovigilance is defined as the surveillance of adverse reactions occurring in donors and in recipients of blood components. A surveillance system for transfusion-related adverse reactions was started in 2010 in Iran. From 863 hospitals in Iran, 542 center runs (63 percent).The ultimate purpose of haemovigilance is to prevent the repetition of adverse events and reactions....

The word haemovigilance is derived from the word pharmacovigilance, which covers activities and systems to collect information in medicinal products, especially for adverse drug reactions in humans. Haemovigilance, initially created in France in the begining of 90s has Greek and Latin roots: ‘‘haema’’: blood and ‘‘vigilans’’: paying special attention. Haemovigilance concerns blood components. P...

BACKGROUND Haemovigilance is defined as the surveillance of adverse reactions occurring in donors and in recipients of blood components and as epidemiological surveillance of donors. The ultimate purpose of haemovigilance is to prevent the repetition of adverse events and reactions. Since the 2002/98/EC Directive came into force, the introduction of haemovigilance systems has become a priority ...

Haemovigilance is considered to be the collection of monitoring measures that encompass entire transfusions process ranging from blood prevention blood-related disease. The term hemovigilance originated word pharmacovigilance, which comprises operations and methods gather intelligence valuable in overseeing pharmaceutical goods, particularly adverse drug responses humans, scientifically assess ...

: Haemovigilance is the systematic surveillance of adverse events in transfusion chain, and encompasses activities that contribute to safety quality process blood donation transfusion. From start early 1990s, haemovigilance has put emphasis on different reactions incidents recipients subsequently donors, pointing vulnerabilities chain areas for prevention. More recently, monitoring efficacy eff...

Haemovigilance is defined as a set of surveillance procedures from the collection of blood and its components to the follow–up of recipients, denoted to collect and assess information on unexpected or undesirable effects resulting from the therapeutic use of labile blood products, and to prevent their occurrence or recurrence. In this system the complications of blood transfusion are systematic...