How Safe is the Blood Supply in the United States?

1990 ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Roger Y. Dodd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States

BLOOD BANKS FACING HUNDREDS OF AIDS SUITS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. A24-A24
Author(s):  
J. F. L.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
Screening Test ◽  
The United States ◽  
Blood Bank ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
Blood Transfusions ◽  
Blood Banks ◽  
Aids Virus

Blood bank officials in the United States are sounding an alarm because they are facing hundreds of lawsuits from people stricken with AIDS after receiving transfusions. Issue of Screening Test The suits generally involve transfusions received before mid-1985, when blood banks started using a screening test that detects antibodies to the AIDS virus in the blood. The central legal issue involves negligence: before the screening test was entirely in place, were the blood banks negligent in their efforts to keep the virus out of the blood supply? The blood banks. . . say the AIDS threat was not fully understood immediately and it was not always clear that the tests would be reliable. Moreover, they say it was often impractical to move more rapidly. While the test has made the nation's blood supply much safer, Federal experts at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta estimate that 12,000 people now living in the United States have been infected with the AIDS virus in blood transfusions. Of these, 2,170 adults and 177 children have developed AIDS so far.

The Impact of End-Stage Renal Disease Transfusion Demand on Blood Utilization and Blood Supply in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. e67-e77
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Hollenbeak ◽  
Matthew Gitlin ◽  
Brian Custer ◽  
William M. McClellan ◽  
Axel Hofmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
End Stage Renal Disease ◽  
The United States ◽  
Blood Utilization ◽  
Stage Renal Disease ◽  
End Stage ◽  
The Impact

Current Safety of the Blood Supply in the United States

2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Y. Dodd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States

Public Policy Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Blood Supply in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. e1-e7
Author(s):  
William Riley ◽  
Kailey Love ◽  
Jeffrey McCullough
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Preparedness Planning ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated an acute blood shortage for medical transfusions, exacerbating an already tenuous blood supply system in the United States, contributing to the public health crisis, and raising deeper questions regarding emergency preparedness planning for ensuring blood availability. However, these issues around blood availability during the pandemic are related primarily to the decline in supply caused by reduced donations during the pandemic rather than increased demand for transfusion of patients with COVID-19. The challenges to ensure a safe blood supply during the pandemic will continue until a vaccine is developed, effective treatments are available, or the virus goes away. If this virus or a similar virus were capable of transmission through blood, it would have a catastrophic impact on the health care system, causing a future public health emergency that would jeopardize the national blood supply. In this article, we identify the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on blood supply adequacy, discuss the public health implications, propose recovery strategies, and present recommendations for preparing for the next disruption in blood supply driven by a public health emergency. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print March 18, 2021: e1–e7. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306157 )

NAT of the United States and Canadian blood supply

Transfusion ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1165-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Stramer ◽  
Sally Caglioti ◽  
D.M. Strong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States

Donors and the United States blood supply

Transfusion ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
RG Westphal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States

Impact of limiting erythropoiesis-stimulating agent use for chemotherapy-induced anemia on the United States blood supply margin

Transfusion ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 895-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Vekeman ◽  
Brahim K. Bookhart ◽  
Joshua White ◽  
R. Scott McKenzie ◽  
Mei Sheng Duh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States

Implications of legalized recreational marijuana on the United States blood supply

Transfusion ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (7) ◽  
pp. 1903-1904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett S. Booth ◽  
Eric A. Gehrie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Blood Supply ◽  
The United States ◽  
Recreational Marijuana
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