5. Blood Donors
• Voluntary Donors –Donate Blood on their own
• Replacement Donors : from within the patient’s
own family or community
• Autologous Blood Donor -Are patients who
donate their own blood for self
• Apheresis Donor- Donate blood components
through the process of cell separation
• Professional Donors -means a person who
donates blood for a valuable consideration, in cash
or kind, for any source, on behalf of the recipient
patient includes a paid donor or a commercial
donor.
6. • Voluntary Non Remunerated Blood Donors are
the low risk donors for
• Safe blood
• Sustainable blood Supply
Replacement Donors-not a preferred system
• Risks of professional Donors.
• Risk of hidden information
8. An adequate supply of low risk donors requires
A donor recruitment program
A dedicated recruitment section with trained
staff
9. The quality of the
BTS is influenced by
the quality of each
of the links
Blood donors
Collection
Processing
Screening
and testing
Transfusion
10. Blood safety
The first & the most important step, in ensuring that blood and
its products for transfusion do not have any pathogenic
virus/bacteria, is the PROPER SELECTION of BLOOD
DONORS.
Donor selection should be done carefully.
The donor should be in good health to avoid any untoward
effect to the donor or to the recipient.
11. Pre Donation Information
Documents to give information to donors
General advice
Pre- and post- donation
Information about giving blood
Deferral information
Self- deferral on the basis of medical condition
Self- deferral on the basis of risk behavior
12. • Registration, consent of the donor &
demographic information.
• Medical history
• Physical examination.
• Laboratory tests
13. Demographic information: So that the donor can be
informed of any laboratory test abnormality or can be
called for future donation.
Donor’s name
Father’s/Husband’s name
Date of birth/Age
Gender : Male/Female
Residential & Office address with phone numbers.
14. Donor selection criteria are essential
Based on accepted regional/ international practice
Protect the donor
Ensures that it is safe for the donor to donate
Protect the recipient
Ensures that any risk of transfusion- transmitted
infection or other adverse effect is minimized
15. Medical interview-Collection of information on health
and behaviour for Critical assessment of donors
regarding fitness
What to ask and why
Maintain confidentiality
Good relationship comes from trust
Personal interviews should not be overheard
Maintain right of each donor to privacy
Medical examination
Haemoglobin testing
Weight
16. Medical Interview
Are you at present in good health?
When did you eat last?
Are you taking any medicine?
Have you been vaccinated recently?
Have you ever suffered a convulsion or mental
disorder?
Have you ever had jaundice?
Have you lost significant weight loss in last six
months ?
17. Should not
have been treated for rabies in the past one year
be treated for Malaria in the past three months
have had any immunizations in the last one month
have had any dental treatment
have taken Aspirin in the past 72 hours
have diabetes, heart disease or high BP, cancer, blood
clotting problem or blood disease
have TB, bronchial asthma or allergic disorder, liver
disease, kidney disease, fits or fainting
18. Should not
• have cough, influenza or sore throat, common cold at
the time of blood donation
• have taken any antibiotics or any other medications
(Allopathic or Ayurveda or Sidha or Homeo) in the
past 48 hours
• have taken alcoholic beverages in the past 24 hours
• be pregnant or breast feeding or donate during her
menstrual cycles
• have donated blood in past 3 months
19. Donor should be in good health.
Age -18 - 60 years
Haemoglobin - not less than 12.5 g/dL
Pulse - between 50 and 100/minute with no irregularities
Blood Pressure -Systolic 100-180 mm Hg and Diastolic 50 - 100 mm Hg
Temperature - Normal
Body weight - ≥ 45 kgs. ( for 350 ml.)
≥ 60 kgs. ( for 450 ml. )
Both male and female can donate blood
Skin at the venepuncture site should be free from any lesion or scar of
needle. Any pricks may indicate drug
20. Temporarily Defer the donor if history of
Major surgery – six months
Minor surgery – three months
Donated blood – 3 months.
Tooth extraction/manipulation–3 days
Received blood or blood component transfusion –
1yr
Aspirin – defer if taken within last 3 days for
component preparation /plateletpheresis .
21. Temporarily Defer the donor with
History of malaria for three months after
treatment and cessation of symptoms .
Tuberculosis for five years after complete
treatment and cessation of symptoms.
22. Permanently Defer Donors with history of
Heart disease : Coronary disease, Rheumatic
heart disease,
Cardiac medication, cardiac surgery
Hypertension
Endocrine :diabetes, hyperthyroidism
Malignancy
High risk group donors for HIV infection
23. Permanently Defer Donors with history of
Chronic renal failure
Chronic liver disease
Stomach ulcer
Bleeding tendencies
Severe allergic disorder, Asthma
Medications : anticoagulants, anticonvulsants,
immuno suppressives, cardiac medications.
24. Donor should meet all the acceptable criteria for
routine whole blood donation however :
Age of the donor-18 to 50 years.
Weight of the donor-> than 55-60kg.
TTI Results - non-reactive
The pre-procedure platelet count should be
more than 150,000 per cubic mm.
25. Donor should not have taken aspirin or any other
platelet inhibitor in last 72 hours.
The donor should not be fasting prior to the procedure,
Donor should have a prominent and easily accessible
central anticubital vein in at least one of the arm.
26. The minimum time gap between two blood
donations should be 12 weeks/3 months
Whole blood donation must be deferred for at
least 72 hours after plateletpheresis
In case of re-infusion failure, donor should not
donate whole blood for 12 weeks
27. Donor care – before, during and after donation
Donating blood should be a pleasant experience
The venue must be a safe place for the donor
The venue must be comfortable & clean.
Adequately Address Adverse reactions
Facilities to deal with any reactions during or after
donation
28. DONOR CARE-BEFORE DONATION
Everyone involved in interviewing & counselling
should develop a friendly & tactful approach that
encourages donors to be honest & accurate in their
answers to questions about their medical history.
The health check should always be handled
professionally so that the donors feel they are in good
hands
Be sensitive to the donors feelings of fear &
embarrassment
No chatting with other staff & ignoring the donor
29. DONOR CARE-DURING
DONATION
Staff must be trained in interpersonal skills and
should always be smart & clean in appearance
with high standard of personal hygiene
Staff should have pleasant manners & be capable
of conversing freely with donors at the time of
donation.
An act of carelessness or lack of professionalism
by staff during or after donation can be
detrimental to the donors coming back again to
donate blood.
30. Observe the donor for 8-10 minutes on the donor chair
to prevent adverse reactions.
Observe for another 10 minutes in the refreshment area
whilst Donor has refreshment .
Inspect the venepuncture site before the donor leaves the
donor room.
31. Ask the donor to write his comments/suggestions in the
donor refreshment register
Thank donors WITH APPRECIATION so that they are
motivated and encouraged to become repeat regular
voluntary blood donor.
32. Post donation instruction to the donor before leaving
blood bank
Drink more fluid in next 24 hours.
Do not smoke for1/2 hour after donation.
Continue with daily routine work but avoid strenuous exercise
e.g. Weight lifting for 24 hours.
Do not drive for at least half an hour.
Volume lost due to blood donation is replenished by 48 hours.
Can safely donate again after three months.
Report to blood bank in case of any adverse reaction.
Document adverse reaction if any on the donor card and
donor register.
33. Donor SatisfactionDonor Satisfaction
CongenialCongenial atmosphereatmosphere
CourteousCourteous and trainedand trained
staffstaff
Care and ComfortCare and Comfort
ConfidentialityConfidentiality
CounselingCounseling
ConstantConstant feed backfeed back
ContinuousContinuous effortsefforts