Epidemiology of blood transfusion

Abstract

Incidence rates of blood transfusion for "causal" planning of blood collections are presented here for the first time. The probability of receiving a transfusion of RBCs in any year rises by 20-fold from the rate in those less than 40 years old to that in those more than 65 years old, who receive 53.3 percent of the red cell units transfused.

Distribution of indications for blood transfusion among the patients of Faridpur, Bangladesh

“…some previous studies. 15 Abortion (4%) was more than expected in our study as a cause of blood utilization which may be backstreet abortion or due to social and cultural factors in that area. More study is needed to nd out the reason behind it.…”

“…Previous studies also showed a prevalence of female patients in indication of blood transfusion. 15 In other countries, the male-female ratio was shown as 43:57 17 , 48:52 18 , 45:55 15 , and as 51:49. 9 On this basis, in our study, it was 29:71 where ratio of the female patients was signi cantly higher in spite of having same pattern of indications like those studies.…”

“…But, review of literature showed that orthopedic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, vascular, urologic, gynecologic, obstetric, breast (mastectomy and mammoplasty), neurologic, plastic, thoracic surgeries often need blood transfusion. 7,15 As medical conditions, we documented patients who received blood transfusion were treated for cancer, leukemia, renal dialysis, thalassemia. But, we did not found any gastrointestinal, cardiac, thoracic, neurologic or neonatal indications of blood transfusion which had been shown in .…”

Blood Transfusions and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

“…The popularity of autologous blood transfusion grew in the early 1990s but has since decreased; autologous transfusion constituted only 3.7 percent of the units administered in 1997 (31). Using data obtained from a rural, suburban US county, the annual probability of receiving a red blood cell transfusion has been estimated at approximately 9 per 1,000 persons, but this probability increases to 50 per 1,000 among persons older than 65 years (32). Surveys of transfusion practices over the past 20 years have shown cancer to be among the leading indications for transfusion, ranging from 10 percent to 30 percent of all units and patients-a level similar to that for cardiovascular and gastrointestinal disease (33)(34)(35)(36).…”

Utilisation of Blood Components in Cardiac Surgery: A Single-Centre Retrospective Analysis with Regard to Diagnosis-Related Procedures

“…Due to the increased number of surgical interventions and their progressive complexity, particularly in higher-developed countries [1,4,12,13,14,15,16], the demand for blood products has increased globally, as noted by a demographic analysis [17]. Additionally, older patients require more blood transfusions [14,18,19] as a result of progress in medical sciences and therapeutic options [17]. Additionally, the demographic ageing of the population in higher developed countries may even reduce the number of younger individuals without illness who have preferentially been recruited as voluntary blood donors [4,12,14,15,20,21].…”