BACKGROUND Hemovigilance is a series of surveillance procedures encompassing the entire transfusion chain from the collection of blood and its components to the follow-up of its recipients. It is intended to collect and access information on unanticipated or adverse effects stemming from the therapeutic use of labile blood products. Blood transfusion, particularly in neonates, requires meticulo...

conclusions the overall score of nursing care as regards adherence to the neonatal hemovigilance guidelines was 59.6% in the present study, indicating a lack of care and failure in training in this regard. results the rates of compliance with the hemovigilance guidelines in terms of request, transfusion, and documentation were 47%, 63.2%, and 68%, correspondingly, with a total score of 59.6% in...

Hemovigilance is used to track and reduce the occurrence of adverse events associated with blood donations (1). Hemovigilance programs have now been in existence for about 20 years after being developed in 1993 in France. Although it has emerged as a tool to improve transfusion safety, many countries and centers are still in the development stage and have not yet established functioning hemovig...

This integrative literature review had the objective of analyzing research on the occurrence of immediate transfusion incidents and implemented hemovigilance actions. Data were obtained through database searches of LILACS, MEDLINE and PubMed, for the period of 1980 to 2009, in the Portuguese, English and Spanish languages. We identified 1382 articles, of which 29 met the established inclusion c...

Reporting and learning systems in general The ability to learn from adverse events and near misses is a cornerstone for improving safety in different high-risk areas such as the aviation and oil industries. Commercial passenger aviation has become extremely safe partly due to extensive use of reporting and learning systems (RLS). A system for reporting adverse events and learning from these eve...