Blood Donors

Author : World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Blood Transfusion Safety
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9241548517

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Blood Donor Selection by World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Blood Transfusion Safety Pdf

The WHO guidelines on assessing donor suitability for blood donation have been developed to assist blood transfusion services in countries that are establishing or strengthening national systems for the selection of blood donors. They are designed for use by policy makers in national blood programmes in ministries of health, national advisory bodies such as national blood commissions or councils, and blood transfusion services.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 924154855X

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Blood Donor Counselling by World Health Organization Pdf

Individuals who donate their blood provide a unique and precious gift in an act of human solidarity. In order to donate blood, prospective donors should be in good health and free from any infections that can be transmitted through transfusion. Most blood donors perceive themselves to be healthy, but some are unsuitable to donate blood due to the potential risk of compromising or worsening their own health or the risk of transmission of infections to patients. Blood transfusion services (BTS) have a duty of care towards blood donors as well as to the recipients of transfusion. This duty of care extends to prospective donors who are deferred from donation--whether on a temporary or permanent basis--as well as those who donate blood and are subsequently found to have unusual or abnormal test results. BTS have a responsibility to confirm test results and provide information, counseling and support to enable these individuals to understand and respond to unexpected information about their health or risk status. Counseling is part of the spectrum of care that a BTS should be able to provide to blood donors--including referral to medical practitioners or specialist clinical services. Pre-donation counseling was recognized as one element of the strategy to reduce and, if possible, prevent the donation of blood by individuals who might be at risk for HIV and other TTI including hepatitis B and C viruses as well as to inform the donor of the donation process and testing of blood for HIV. Post-donation counseling was acknowledged to be a necessary element of donor management as an adjunct to informing donors of unusual or abnormal test results. Blood donor counseling by trained specialist staff is now considered to be a key component of the blood system in most countries with a well-developed blood transfusion service. It may be required at a number of stages in the blood donation process or following blood screening and should be available at any point at which the BTS has an interface with donors. In many countries, however, blood donor counseling is not yet available in a structured way. Blood Donor Counselling: Implementation Guidelines has therefore been developed to provide guidance to blood transfusion services that have not yet established donor counseling programs.

Author : Titmuss, Richard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447349600

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The Gift Relationship (Reissue) by Titmuss, Richard Pdf

Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. Titmuss’s argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. His analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.

Author : Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309589628

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Blood Donors and the Supply of Blood and Blood Products by Forum on Blood Safety and Blood Availability,Institute of Medicine Pdf

This volume discusses the current state of the nation's blood supply--including studies of blood availability, ways of enhancing blood collection and distribution, frozen red cell technology, logistical concerns in prepositioning frozen blood, extended liquid storage of red cells, and blood substitutes.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood and Blood Products
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309053297

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HIV and the Blood Supply by Institute of Medicine,Committee to Study HIV Transmission Through Blood and Blood Products Pdf

During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could transmit the disease. During this period of great uncertainty, decision-making regarding the blood supply became increasingly difficult and fraught with risk. This volume provides a balanced inquiry into the blood safety controversy, which involves private sexual practices, personal tragedy for the victims of HIV/AIDS, and public confidence in America's blood services system. The book focuses on critical decisions as information about the danger to the blood supply emerged. The committee draws conclusions about what was doneâ€"and recommends what should be done to produce better outcomes in the face of future threats to blood safety. The committee frames its analysis around four critical area: Product treatmentâ€"Could effective methods for inactivating HIV in blood have been introduced sooner? Donor screening and referralâ€"including a review of screening to exlude high-risk individuals. Regulations and recall of contaminated bloodâ€"analyzing decisions by federal agencies and the private sector. Risk communicationâ€"examining whether infections could have been averted by better communication of the risks.

Author : Paul I. Terasaki
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Medical
ISBN : CHI:23540701

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Blood Transfusion and Transplantation by Paul I. Terasaki Pdf

Author : Steve Tasane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1406344052

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Blood Donors by Steve Tasane Pdf

BAD BLOOD. BAD DRUGS. BAD BUGS. WELCOME TO THE FINGER. A Splatterfest with a Social Conscience from radical new voice in teen fiction, Steve Tasane.Peoples keep dyin' in the finger, the scuzzie old tower block where they put us antisociable families. Authorities say it dirty smack going round, but them bodies ain't all users ... an' they look like they die screamin'. Marshall O'Connor the First lives in the Finger with his mum and li'l bro. His dad's in prison, school kicked him out, and the bedbugs are drivin' him crazy. True, Marsh got himself some issues. But it ain't the drugs that peoples should be worryin' about, 'cos them bloodsuckin' bugs have grown some, and they ready for a bigger feed...

Author : Neelam Dhingra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241599227

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WHO Guidelines on Drawing Blood by Neelam Dhingra Pdf

Phlebotomy uses large, hollow needles to remove blood specimens for lab testing or blood donation. Each step in the process carries risks - both for patients and health workers. Patients may be bruised. Health workers may receive needle-stick injuries. Both can become infected with bloodborne organisms such as hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis or malaria. Moreover, each step affects the quality of the specimen and the diagnosis. A contaminated specimen will produce a misdiagnosis. Clerical errors can prove fatal. The new WHO guidelines provide recommended steps for safe phlebotomy and reiterate accepted principles for drawing, collecting blood and transporting blood to laboratories/blood banks.

Author : Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Pan American Health Org
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789275129395

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Eligibility for Blood Donation by Pan American Health Organization Pdf

This book summarizes the rationale for the parameters and conditions that should be taken into consideration in the education and selection of blood donors, in order to allow blood service staff, community volunteers and prospective blood donors to understand them. In addition, it includes recommendations made by PAHO to the national health authorities and the national blood programs for promoting multidisciplinary and coordinated approaches for health promotion, public education, universal and regional human and patient rights-as applicable to blood donors and recipients-, quality assurance and financial efficiency in the issues pertaining to sufficiency, availability, access, quality, safety, and timeliness of blood for transfusion.

Author : Jacob Copeman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813544496

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Veins of Devotion by Jacob Copeman Pdf

Veins of Devotion details recent collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully situates the practice within the context of religious gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic competition between different devotional movements, but also of intense spiritual creativity.

Author : Karen Bass
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781459826878

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Blood Donor by Karen Bass Pdf

Seventeen-year-old Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, and thanks to her controlling father, she's now locked out, cold and wandering the streets. She has no money and nowhere to sleep. Halfway through the night she meets someone who says they’re with a group working with at-risk kids, helping them get back on their feet. Jo gratefully accepts the offer of shelter for the night, only to find she has walked into a kidnapper’s trap. Now Jo and several other teens are being held prisoner. Their captors drug them regularly and force them to donate their blood. What is so special about the teens’ blood? And how long before they’re drained dry? When one of the teens doesn’t return, Jo suspects their days are numbered. She has to find a way to escape before their time runs out.

Author : Antoinette Luna
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Blood
ISBN : 1634854578

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Blood Donations by Antoinette Luna Pdf

This book discusses the global attitudes regarding blood donations, its safety and future directions. Chapter One provides a brief overview of the ethics of blood donations. Chapter Two focuses on the epidemiological aspects of the hepatitis C virus infection among seekers of serological tests in blood banks in Pará, Brazilian Amazon. Chapter Three discusses statistical control of the production of blood components using variables and attributes charts, and capacity indexes. Chapter Four demonstrates the use of cluster analysis and item response theory for the assessment of transfusion-related knowledge of nurses. Chapter Five reviews a quantitative/qualitative approach to better understand motivations of apheresis donors in Quebec, Canada.

Author : Julian Guthrie
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781647000158

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Good Blood by Julian Guthrie Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author of How to Make a Spaceship presents the remarkable, uplifting story of a life-saving medical breakthrough. In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world. In Good Blood, Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure Rh disease, a horrible blood disease that caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very di?erent men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and an unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives. Good Blood takes us from research laboratories to hospitals, and even into Sing Sing prison, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention, the progress and pitfalls of medicine, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies.

Author : The Law The Law Library
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727546482

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Requirements for Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion Or for Further Manufacturing Use (Us Food and Drug Administration Regulation) (Fda) (2018 Edition) by The Law The Law Library Pdf

Requirements for Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion or for Further Manufacturing Use (US Food and Drug Administration Regulation) (FDA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Requirements for Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion or for Further Manufacturing Use (US Food and Drug Administration Regulation) (FDA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the regulations applicable to blood and blood components, including Source Plasma, to make the donor eligibility and testing requirements more consistent with current practices in the blood industry, to more closely align the regulations with current FDA recommendations, and to provide flexibility to accommodate advancing technology. In order to better assure the safety of the nation's blood supply and to help protect donor health, FDA is revising the requirements for blood establishments to test donors for infectious disease, and to determine that donors are eligible to donate and that donations are suitable for transfusion or further manufacture. FDA is also requiring establishments to evaluate donors for factors that may adversely affect the safety, purity, and potency of blood and blood components or the health of a donor during the donation process. Accordingly, these regulations establish requirements for donor education, donor history, and donor testing. These regulations also implement a flexible framework to help both FDA and industry to more effectively respond to new or emerging infectious agents that may affect blood product safety. This book contains: - The complete text of the Requirements for Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion or for Further Manufacturing Use (US Food and Drug Administration Regulation) (FDA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Author : Henk ten Have,Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1063 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030541613

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Dictionary of Global Bioethics by Henk ten Have,Maria do Céu Patrão Neves Pdf

This Dictionary presents a broad range of topics relevant in present-day global bioethics. With more than 500 entries, this dictionary covers organizations working in the field of global bioethics, international documents concerning bioethics, personalities that have played a role in the development of global bioethics, as well as specific topics in the field.The book is not only useful for students and professionals in global health activities, but can also serve as a basic tool that explains relevant ethical notions and terms. The dictionary furthers the ideals of cosmopolitanism: solidarity, equality, respect for difference and concern with what human beings- and specifically patients - have in common, regardless of their backgrounds, hometowns, religions, gender, etc. Global problems such as pandemic diseases, disasters, lack of care and medication, homelessness and displacement call for global responses.This book demonstrates that a moral vision of global health is necessary and it helps to quickly understand the basic ideas of global bioethics.