Legal Medicine Evaluation of a Laboratory Error at the Blood Transfusion Center of Iran: A Case Report

Acute and chronic viral hepatitis are common public health problems in Pakistan, and associated with serious complications. The carrier rate of HBsAg is quoted to be around 10% in general population while the prevalence of HCV in blood donors is 4.8 %. Data regarding the prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infections among healthy blood donors is well established in Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Lahore and Abbotabad areas, but similar data is not available for Multan population. Data regarding the epidemiology of HIV infection among blood donors is not available at most of the blood transfusion centers. In this study six thousands (6000) consecutive young healthy voluntary blood donors (age 16-50 years) comprising of 5476 males and 524 females, belonging to Multan region were included from "Blood Transfusion Center Nishtar Hospital Multan" & "Fatmid Blood Transfusion Center Multan" and were tested for HbsAg, Anti-HCV and HIV. Prevalence of Hepatitis B, C and HIV Infection was 3.37%, 0.27% and 0% respectively. The reported prevalence figures for HBsAg & Anti-HCV in other studies are quite variable, depending upon screening protocol, study groups selected and methodology of testing. If data from all the blood transfusion centers of Pakistan is collected and published, we can get representative prevalence values of HBV, HCV and HIV infection of the general population.

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The Contribution of the Metrological Management in the Moroccan Establishments of Blood Donation (Experiment of the regional center of blood transfusion in Oujda Morocco)

19th International Congress of Metrology (CIM2019) ◽

10.1051/metrology/201919002 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Khalid El Bekkaye ◽

Zaina Sidqi

Keyword(s):

Blood Transfusion ◽

Blood Product ◽

Blood Donation ◽

Action Plan ◽

Recording System ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Important Place ◽

Regional Center ◽

Transfusion Center ◽

Blood Transfusion Center

Metrological verification consists of proving by calibration measurements that specified requirements are met. The result of an audit is a compliance decision followed by re-commissioning or non-compliance followed by an adjustment, repair, decommissioning, or device reform. At the regional blood transfusion center of Oujda, from 2010 to 2018 the number of metrological qualification has increased from 88 to 152 acts with compliance going from 92% to 97%, thus the number of visit for preventive and curative maintenance of the share of external companies has also increased since 2010 to 2018 from 10 annual visits to 43 annual visits, which indicates a strong progressive metrological activity and an important place of the metrological process in the continuity of guaranteeing a safety of the result obtained from the operations carried out for the practitioners and for donor and recipient patients of the blood product. An action plan was implemented to correct the anomalies identified such as the acquisition of new metrology equipment, to predict the change of climatic chambers and non-adapted devices, the acquisition of more sophisticated machines and the establishment of a continuous recording system of the cold chain.

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HBc antibody seroprevalence in HBs negative antigen blood donors at the Chad National Blood Transfusion Center in NDjamena

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ◽

10.5897/ajb2020.17275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Mbanga Djimadoum ◽

Bessimbaye Nadlaou ◽

Barro Nicolas

Keyword(s):

Blood Transfusion ◽

Blood Donors ◽

Transfusion Center ◽

Blood Transfusion Center

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ABO & RHESUS BLOOD GROUPS

The Professional Medical Journal ◽

10.29309/tpmj/2005.12.04.5083 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 12 (04) ◽

pp. 368-371

Author(s):

ABDUL REHMAN ◽

Muhammad Akram Saeed ◽

MUHAMMAD AYUB KHAN ◽

Ahmad Rafique ◽

MUHAMMAD ASHRAF ◽

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Keyword(s):

Blood Transfusion ◽

Blood Group ◽

Blood Donors ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Abo Blood Group ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Transfusion Center ◽

Blood Transfusion Center ◽

Study Setting

`Objective: To know the prevalence of ABO and Rhesus blood groups.Design: Observational cross sectional study. Setting: Blood transfusion Center Tehsil Headquarter HospitalLiaquatpur. Subjects and Methods: The data of blood donors from 2001 to 2003. Results: Total numbers of donorsstudied were 1389. The commonest ABO blood group was O present in 44.56% (CL 41.97% - 47.20%) followed byB in 32.54% (CL 30.13% - 35.06%), A in 20.88% (CL 18.82% - 23.10%) and AB in 2.02% (CL 1.39% - 2.91%) donorswhile 90.35% (CL 88.68% - 91.80%) donors were Rh +ve and 9.65% (CL 8.20% - 11.32%) were Rh -ve. Thecommonest ABO +ve group was O +ve present in 40.03% (CL 37.48% - 42.69%) followed by B +ve in 30.31% (CL27.95% - 32.78%), A +ve in 18.21% (CL 16.27% - 20.34%) and AB +ve in 1.8% (CL 1.21% - 2.66%) donors. The mostcommon ABO -ve was O -ve present in 4.54% (CL 3.56% - 5.77%), A -ve in 2.66% (CL 1.93% - 3.66%), B -ve in 2.23%(CL 1.57% - 3.17%) donors. Conclusion: Blood group O is the commonest ABO blood group and 90.35% are RH +vein this area.

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