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Background: In current medical and surgical practice, a blood transfusion can be a vital, life-saving procedure. Healthy donor recruitment and retention is a challenge that faces the health industry today. Hence studying the profile of blood donors will help to identify the population which could be targeted to increase the pool of blood donors. It is also essential that the blood collection process does not harm either the donor or the recipient. This is achieved by having donor deferral criteria.

Methodology: Data was collected from the records maintained by the blood bank. Study participants included all those who donated blood between 1^st January 2010 and 31^st December 2012.

Result: A majority of the donors were under the age of 25 (38.5 %), followed by those aged 26-35(37.60%). Males dominated the donor population (93.8%) with females making up the numbers with 6.2%. In total (3.72 %) were found unfit for donation, donors were found unfit to donate for various reasons, the majority ( 83.93%), were deferred for temporary reasons, and a smaller subset (16.07%) were permanently deferred.

Conclusion

1) Total deferral during the study period was 3.72 %

2) Most common reasons for deferral were low Hemoglobin (31.95%), under weight (25.16 %), high blood pressure (13.4 %) and history of antibiotic/medication use (6.88%).

3) Majority of them (83.93%) was being deferred for temporary reasons.

Background: Blood is essential for life. It contains cellular component and plasma which supplies oxygen, nutrients to different parts of the body. Transfusion of blood and blood components is an integral part of health care practice. Many a times there will be injudicious use of blood and its products among patients which causes unnecessary burden to the patients as well to blood bank. Main aim of this study is to evaluate the pattern of utilization of blood components in tertiary care hospital at Rajkot. Methods: This was retrospective study carried out over a period of 1 year from January 2017 to December 2017. All the data were collected from blood bank. Result: Total number of the blood components utilized in the year 2017 was 22290.The most utilized blood component included of Red Cell Concentrate (RCC) followed by Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) and Platelet Concentrate respectively. Cryoprecipitate was least utilized component. Thalassemia ward was majorly benefited. Conclusion: Periodic evaluation of utilization pattern, demand for different blood products also helps to maintain the blood stock.

Background

This study was done to investigate the cause of death due to coronary artery pathology found on autopsies received between November 2007 to October 2012. The study was conducted at the Histopathology laboratory, Pathology Department, P. D. U. Medical College, Rajkot, Gujarat, India.

Methods

In the present study, total 350 postmortem cases with coronary artery specimen received from Saurashtra region(formed by seven districts of Gujarat,India) from November 2008 to October 2012 were considered. Histopathological sectioning of these specimens was done & slides were prepared & stained by Hematoxylin & Eosin stains, examined microscopically for coronary artery pathology. Each and every autopsy cases received irrespective of natural, unnatural or sudden death were considered for this study. Patients’ relatives were approached and detailed history about the life style, habit & clinical complains of the patient was noted for further evaluation.

Results

A direct relationship was observed between death due to coronary artery disease and personal history including risk factors like sedentary life style, smoking, alcohol, obesity, diabetes & also with particular age groups viz. 45-65 years.

Conclusions

Our study confirms that coronary artery diseases are more common among the population with sedentary life style, habit of smoking, alcohol & obesity. Also relationships with diabetes & hypertension were observed. These signify, increasing incidence of coronary artery diseases with modernization & adaptation of western lifestyle in the developing countries as emphasized by this study in our study population. These informations are valuable in policy formation for the control of coronary as artery diseases.