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Serious Adverse Events of Blood Donation
Author(s) -
Crusz T. A. M.
Publication year - 2006
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2006.00693_43.x
Subject(s) - medicine , donation , venipuncture , adverse effect , blood donor , emergency medicine , organ donation , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , surgery , transplantation , immunology , economics , economic growth
A single, national system for the identification, recording and follow‐up of serious adverse events associated with blood donation was put in place by the National Blood Service (NBS) in April 2003. As there are no international definitions or categories, we defined a serious adverse event of donation (SAED) as a donor event that results in treatment by or referral to a non NBS clinical professional, e.g. GP, paramedic. Also included in the list of categories is a donor needlestick injury or blood splash contamination to a donor, involving body fluids from a member of staff or another donor. This category was included as these events are not recorded under any other national system. 254 SAEDs (0.21/1000 donors bled) were reported between September 2005 and March 2006. 124 events (48%) were due to vasovagal problems, 80 (31%) were venepuncture related and the rest were due to accidents sustained at session, clinical events directly related to blood donation and medical emergencies which were probably unrelated to donation. 133 events were treated by the GP or practice nurse whilst the remainder were treated in hospital or by paramedics at the site. During this 7 month period 1 needlestick/blood splash contamination event was reported. More up to date figures will be presented. There have been no deaths directly related to blood donation. The NBS has a robust system for not only routinely reporting and recording all donor related adverse events, but also events causing a donor to need clinical care outside the NBS. At present we have no figures from other Blood Services to compare our incidence of SAEDs.