Background. Understanding the knowledge and awareness of blood donation among potential blood donors in the population, like young people, and the associated attitudes and practices is important. Methodology. This was a cross-sectional study whereby a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information from the consenting participants. Results. A total of 422 participants were enrol...

BACKGROUND Rural areas pose challenges for motivating villagers to donate blood. We organized a blood donation camp in a rural setting by engaging multiple stakeholders. We examined the factors that influenced blood donation. METHODS Local level stakeholders were involved in planning of the camp. Mobilization of donors was attempted through intensive awareness generation activities utilizing ...

www.thelancet.com Published online September 20, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32156-6 1 Volunteer blood donors give about 500 mL of whole blood, approximately 10% of their total blood volume. After removal of plasma during processing, each mL of packed red blood cells contains 1 mg of iron. Thus, 200–250 mg iron are removed from the donor at each donation depending on their haem...

The worldwide pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a major implication for blood donation. beginning the occurred at same time as Ramadhan fasting. This study aimed to evaluate donation, use trends, and several factors associated with need transfusion during COVID-19 fasting in Dr. Sardjito General Hospital (SGH). Information on donation components SGH-Blood Centre (SGH-BC) from ...

Article 3.4 of EC directive 89/381 requires member states to take "all necessary measures to promote Community self-sufficiency in human blood or human plasma" and, for this purpose, to "encourage the voluntary unpaid donation of blood and plasma". This paper presents an ethical case in support of the policy of voluntary, unpaid donation.

One third of healthy willing living kidney donors are rejected due to ABO blood group incompatibility and donor specific antibody. This increases pre-transplant dialysis duration leading to increased morbidity and mortality on the kidney transplantation waiting list. Over the last decade kidney paired donation is most rapidly increased source of living kidney donors. In a kidney transplantation...

BACKGROUND Reports on unexpected events (UEs) during blood donation (BD) inadequately consider the role of technical UEs. METHODS Defined local and systemic UEs were graded by severity; technical UEs were not graded. On January 1, 2008, E.B.P.S.-Logistics (EBPS) installed the UE module for plasma management software (PMS). Donor room physicians entered UEs daily into PMS. Medical directors re...

The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) recently introduced a policy of compulsory appointments for blood donations. This thesis examines the effect of these appointments on donor satisfaction and donation behaviour. Overall, aggregate tests indicate that the policy transition initially had a negative effect. However, conditional on having donated once after the transition, donors are mo...

background : time to donating blood plays a major role in a regular donor to becoming continues one. the aim of this study was to determine the effective factors on the interval between the blood donations. methods : in a longitudinal study in 2008, 864 samples of first-time donors in shahrekord blood transfusion center,  capital city of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province, iran were selected by...