Retrospective Assessment of Blood Donor Deferral Causes: An Observational Study
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: In the current system of blood collection, the occurrence of blood donor deferral has emerged as a painful and sad experience for the blood donor. The blood donor deferral is a negative procedure for the blood centre which is screening the donor. The present system of blood deferral leaves the donor-recruiting efforts of a blood centre on a standstill, thus more efforts are diverted towards new recruitments as donors. Also, majority of the donors develop negative feelings about themselves as well as the blood donation process. Such donors are less likely to donate blood donation in future. It is noteworthy that the criteria of such deferrals and their regularisation strongly influence the quality of blood supply in the population. Materials and Methods: A study was conducted for a period of 12 months. In this study a total of 336 donors were selected from both in house (218 donors) and out house donation sites (118 donors). The minimum haemoglobin requirement was 12.5 gm/dl which was achieved by simple finger prick method and later confirmed by Hemocue Hb 201+ method for both males (187) and females (149). The threshold blood pressure of 100-170mm/hg systolic and 80-100mm/hg diastolic were accepted. Results: Out of the total 336 donors, 139 donors (41.4%) were kept in deferred list due to various reasons. Maximum account was seen in the category with past history of anaemia amounting around 39% of the deferred patients (54). Second most prevalent reason of being deferred was the past history of hypertension seen in 24% of the deferred patients (33). Least number of patients was observed in the menstruation category i.e. 2.5% (4). Conclusion: The criteria for whole blood donor selection and deferral in India are primarily based upon scientific facts borrowed from developed countries and secondly on traditional Indian methods. Hypertension and anaemia were found to be the most prevalent cause of donors being deferred.
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Mahavir Prasad Agarwal, Anjali Agarwal
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