Recipient hemovigilance at a tertiary care hospital in Southern India: A cross-sectional study

Gente, Vikram Kumar; Basavarajegowda, Abhishekh; Kulkarni, Rajendra; Basu, Debdatta

doi:10.4103/ijamr.ijamr_33_18

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“…Increasing awareness of hemovigilance among doctors and training on reporting transfusion reactions would likely improve spontaneous reporting and help to strengthen the blood transfusion system. 16,17…”

Section: Studies and Practices Of Hemovigilance In Hospitals Of Indiamentioning

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Hemovigilance in India: Corrective action towards safety of blood transfusion

Dutta¹,

Banerjee²,

Chaudhry³

2021

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(A. Dutta). chain, the scope of hemovigilance is all levels of potential transfusion hazards, i.e. from the selection of potential donors to the transfusion to the recipient. To reach this goal: the core of hemovigilance, as a system of public health surveillance, is a prospective surveillance and alert system. On European level, hemovigilance started around 1995. The European Council published its Resolution of June 2, 1995 and a Communication on "Blood Safety and Self-Sufficiency in the Community" with the aim to improve public confidence in the safety of the blood supply. In the same year and for the first time on ISBT Congresses, at the ISBT 5th Regional (4th European) Congress in Venice, Italy, a hemovigilance symposium "Hemovigilance procedures in Transfusion Medicine" was organized. The conclusion of this symposium was that hemovigilance should be considered as part of the quality

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Section: Studies and Practices Of Hemovigilance In Hospitals Of Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Hemovigilance in India: Corrective action towards safety of blood transfusion

Dutta¹,

Banerjee²,

Chaudhry³

2021

JPMHH

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Audit-based corrective and preventive actions to reduce wastage of blood components at a single blood center: A quality improvement study

Gnanaraj,

Kulkarni,

Sahoo

et al. 2023

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

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INTRODUCTION: The rate of discarded blood components or “wastage rate” reflects on the whole process, preparation, and production of blood and its quality control. It is the ratio of blood and blood components discarded to the total number of collections. The discard or unusability of blood products are many, and the ones that can be monitored and regarded as indicators to be improvised on are QC failure rate, transfusion-transmitted infection (TTI) positivity, and component discards (other than TTI), including those that caused transfusion reactions. These were studied over four intervention cycles to see if they could be improved. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a clinical audit and quality improvement study. The clinical audit was conducted over four cycles over 16 months. Each cycle included three stages wherein the data required for calculating those key performance indicators (KPIs) of the blood center were studied and analyzed, and causes for the poorly performing ones were identified; a corrective plan was drawn and implemented, followed by data collection and interpretation of the same in the next cycle for improvement. The data were compiled using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and analyzed using SPSS version 19 (IBM Corporation, New York, USA). RESULTS: The overall discard rates due to all cumulative causes mentioned were at about 5% at the start of the first cycle. The various factors comprising preparatory, preparation, and the management of inventory and issue were analyzed, and corrective interventions were performed in every cycle. The discard rates were reduced to about 3% by the end of the four cycles. The difference was statistically significant, with a P < 0.05. CONCLUSION: The implementation of Corrective and preventive action measures can rectify the deviations in KPIs. The blood center director, staff, and doctors should be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving the quality indicators.

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Transfusion reactions in neonates and pediatrics

Basavarajegowda

Plakkal

2023

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science

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Neonates and children are physically as well as physiologically different from adults. They are immunologically vulnerable, and the effects of transfusion can be longstanding, including with respect to their development. The transfusion reactions in children differ from those in adults in the type of reactions, incidence, and severity. The incidence is more than that in adults for the common type of reactions noted in children. Transfusion reactions are most commonly associated with platelets, followed by plasma and red blood cell transfusions in children. Febrile, allergic, and hypotensive reactions or volume overload are the common types in children. Standardizing pediatric adverse transfusion reaction definitions and criteria are necessary to improve studies and reports. Several modifications are needed to be adapted for transfusing blood products in neonates and children to evade the reactions as much as possible and make transfusion safer in this vulnerable population. This article provides a brief articulation of the transfusion reactions in neonatal and pediatric populations describing how they are different from adults.

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Recipient hemovigilance at a tertiary care hospital in Southern India: A cross-sectional study

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Hemovigilance in India: Corrective action towards safety of blood transfusion

Hemovigilance in India: Corrective action towards safety of blood transfusion

Audit-based corrective and preventive actions to reduce wastage of blood components at a single blood center: A quality improvement study

Transfusion reactions in neonates and pediatrics

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