Hemovigilancia de los efectos adversos a la donación de sangre / Hemovigilance of side effects related to blood donation

La donación de sangre es el sustento de los programas que proporcionan la sangre segura para el uso terapéutico, con el fin de preservar la salud y vida humana. Es necesario prestar especial atención a la seguridad y calidad de esta actividad ya que es también un principio ético, cuidar de la salud del que de forma altruista da parte de si para beneficiar a los demás. Aunque la donación es un proceder seguro, en ocasiones pueden presentarse efectos adversos en los donantes, algunos evitables, que pueden repercutir en su salud o afectar el retorno a esta actividad. A inicios de la década de 1990, surgen los programas de hemovigilancia encargados de velar, notificar, investigar y prevenir los efectos adversos de la transfusión y la donación, con el fin de prevenir su recurrencia e incrementar la seguridad y calidad de ambos procederes. Este trabajo realiza una revisión actualizada sobre las reacciones adversas de la donación en el contexto de la hemovigilancia(AU)

Blood donation is the livelihood of all blood programs to provide safe blood transfusion for therapeutic use whit the aim to preserve health and human life. It is necessary to pay attention to the safety and quality of this activity, because is an ethical principle to take care of the health of those who, in an altruist manner, give part of themselves in order to benefit others. Although the donation is a safe procedure, occasionally some side effects in donors may occur, many of them can be avoided, and that could have an echo on the donors' health on effect their return to this activity. At the beginning of the 90ths, decade started the Hemovigilance programs in charge of the vigilance, notification and prevention of transfusion and donation side effects, whit the purpose of preventing its recurrence and increase the safety and quality of both procedures. This work carries out and update revision about of donor's reactions in the Hemovigilance(AU)

Negative peri-donation events among whole blood donors in a blood bank in Ibadan, Nigeria

The existence and sustenance of the blood bank depends on blood donors. It is imperative that the donation experience is satisfactory for the donors. Therefore this study was carried out to determine the frequency of undesirable events experienced by the blood donor as part of donor haemovigilance. This was a retrospective descriptive study of the events that occurred amongst the blood donors of the blood bank of a tertiary institution. The blood donor incident book was reviewed for the period of six months. Negative undesirable events occurred in 2% of the donor populations, of which 45.8% could not complete the blood donation process while only 16.7% completed the blood donation process. Mild vasovagal attack occurred in 0.2% of the donor population. Undisclosed deferrable risk factors/ behaviours were identified by the phlebotomist in the bleeding room which made donors unfit for donation even though they had passed the donor screening criteria. This accounted for 20.8% of those with negative experience. Guidelines are required to identify donors that are not likely to complete donation to avoid wastage of time, blood, resources and reduce undesirable experiences