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Bruising following blood donation, its management and the response and subsequent return rates of affected donors
Author(s) -
Ranasinghe,
) Harrison
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
transfusion medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1365-3148
pISSN - 0958-7578
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3148.2000.00240.x
Subject(s) - medicine , venipuncture , blood donor , donation , incidence (geometry) , surgery , emergency medicine , significant difference , physics , economics , optics , immunology , economic growth
A study was undertaken to determine the incidence of bruising among blood donors and to analyse their response to the management of this complication. A total of 52 510 donors were bled at 476 consecutive donor sessions held by the Brentwood Centre during a 4‐month period. Of these, 344 donors (0.66%) were found to have developed bruises following venepuncture. The incidence of bruising among males was 0.35% and that among females was 0.98%. All bruised donors were managed by the Centre nursing and medical staff. One hundred and sixty‐one donors informed the Centre that they were fully satisfied with the way their bruising was managed. Of 329 bruised donors who remained in the panel, 249 (75.7%) attended subsequent blood donor sessions in response to routine invitations, showing that the majority of bruised donors continued to donate blood. This response was compared with that of a control group of donors who did not develop any complications and there was no significant difference in the return rates between the two groups.