Transfusion reactions: a challenge in hemovigilance

Abstract

Hemovigilance is the set of surveillance procedures that covers the entire blood cycle, in order to obtain and make available information on adverse events occurring at different stages to prevent their occurrence or recurrence, improve the quality of processes and products and increase the safety of the donor and recipient. Objetivo: conhecer o perfil das reações transfusionais ocorridas entre os anos de 2002 a 2015. Methodology: The data available in the Ministry of Health publications from 2002 to 2015 on transfusion reactions and their characteristics were analyzed. Discussion: The rational use of blood products for therapeutic purposes is the effect of a historical development, in which curiosity and the instinct of the human being's need for investigation were subjugating the obstacles of knowledge, making admissible a transfusion practice currently selective, but that in the beginning of the last century, went through trials often empirical, well or badly occurred, which harmonized the advanced scientific knowledge in the area of Hemotherapy Conclusion: Although we have compiled data, there is a need for periodic updating so that a quantitative analysis is carried out that permeates the number of transfusions and transfusion reactions notified in order to estimate underreporting and stimulate the permanent training of professionals who work in care.