Whole blood donor deferral analysis at Genera l hospital blood bank – A retrospective study.

looks speciically at the distribution of weekly blood collections at three major Brazilian blood centers participating in the Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study-II (REDS-II)

Background : the Blood Donation Reactions Inventory (BDRI) scale was proposed as part of a study about the predictors of psychological reactions in volunteer blood donors, as

standard operating procedures for all steps in the transfusion process; (f) training all hospital staff involved in transfusion; (g) monitoring the usage of blood and blood

In our study, the residual risk for HIV markers in blood donors in the Regional Blood Bank in the Mountain Region was estimated to be 1:50,000 in the period between 2000 and 2003,

Thus, the statistical equality of HIV prevalence among first-donation donors and repeated-donation donors observed in the present study can be explained by circumstances such as

This study aimed at estimating the number of cases of non-negative serological reactions to Chagas disease in blood donors at the Blood Center of Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, from

Based on blood pressure measurements at the medi- cal office and on ABPM, the patients were divided into the following categories: a) arterial hypertension – systolic blood pressure

From 2001 to 2008, 679,610 donor blood samples were serologically assessed for HTLV-I/II at the Blood Center Net of Ceará; the samples were collected at the blood do- nation