2010, Number 2
Incidence of adverse reactions to blood donation 2006-2009
Luna ML, Rojas SLL, Cruz R, Suaste MML, Mejía DAM
Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 76-80
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ABSTRACT
Blood donation is an act of humanism that leads to a series of intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms that make it a complex process who emphasize protecting, conserving and promoting the health and integrity of the donor. Objective: to determine the frequency and type of adverse reactions to blood donation (RAD) between the years 2006 and 2009. Methodology: a descriptive, retrospective and longitudinal study since January 1th 2006 to December 31 2009. It was reviewed the total of donor’s medical histories from the blood bank’s medical file records of the file from the blood bank, It Was Designed to database in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 for the collection and analysis of them. Results: blood donors 31.176 1.789 RAD occurred in 767 subjects, with a ratio RAD / donor of 1.7, being the year 2009 where the largest number of events (31.4%), the predominant genre in which such RAD was males (53.1%), overall mean age ranged from 29 ± 9 years, overall BMI was 32.15 ± 3.87 kg/m2, low average socioeconomic status of foreign origin. The RAD most common were nausea, dizziness 91.5% and 43.2%, among the factors considered influential in RAD are: to be a donor for the first time, fast time over 6 hours and did not sleep between 1 and 14 hours; the overall incidence of RAD was 5.73% in 767 subjects, extended hours of fasting, age, hours of fasting and be the first time donor were the most influential factors for RAD.REFERENCES