Premium
Blood Donation, a Risk for Epileptic Patients?
Author(s) -
Linden Gerard J.,
Heukelom Louis H. Siegenbeek,
Meinardi Harry
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1986.tb00232.x
Subject(s) - epilepsy , emotive , medicine , blood donor , blood donations , donation , convulsion , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , psychiatry , immunology , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
. Generally patients with epilepsy will not be accepted as blood donors by blood banks. A survey in the Dutch blood banks revealed two blood banks with a total of 13 donors suffering from epilepsy. We also questioned the Chapters of the International League against Epilepsy. The answers on a national and international level differed widely. We believe that the rare convulsion during blood donation is not an epileptic seizure, but in fact an emotive syncope. We advocate the acceptance of patients with epilepsy, free of seizures for 2 years irrespective of their medication, as blood donors.