This document discusses donor selection criteria and donor care policies. It outlines different types of blood donors, including voluntary, replacement, autologous, and apheresis donors. Professional donors who are paid are not preferred due to risks. Selection criteria aim to protect both donors and recipients by ensuring donors are healthy and low risk. The donor selection process involves registration, consent, medical screening, and testing. Policies cover donor recruitment, retention, counseling, and ensuring a safe donation experience.
3. Types of 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
4. Professional Donors
• Professional Donors -means a person who
donates blood for a valuable consideration, in
casher kind, for any source, on behalf of the
recipient patient includes a paid donor or a
commercial donor………….
• A bad donor………….
5. Good vs Bad
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
7. Donor Recruitment Program
An adequate supply of low risk donors requires
A donor recruitment program
A dedicated recruitment section with trained
staff like Lab Technologist ,Lab specialist ,lab
scientist or MLSO
8. Basic Transfusion Chain
The quality of the
BTS is influenced by
the quality of each
of the links
Blood donors
Collection
Processing
Screening
Testing
Transfusion
9. 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
bad effect to the donor or to the recipient
10. 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
11. • Registration, consent of the donor &
demographic information.
• Medical history
• Physical examination.
• Laboratory tests
12. Donor selection
• 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
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. 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 ?
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. 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
17. 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. 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 venipuncture site should be free from any lesion
or scar of needle. Any pricks may indicate drug
19. 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 /platelet pheresis
20. Temporarily
History of malaria for three months after
treatment and cessation of symptoms .
Tuberculosis for five years after complete
treatment and cessation of symptoms.
21. 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. Acceptable criteria
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.
The pre-procedure platelet count should be
more than 150,000 per cubic mm
24. SHORT PERIOD
• 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.
25. SHORT PERIOD
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
26. Donor care
• 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Thank u very much
Ask the donor to write his
comments/suggestions in the donor
refreshment register
Thanks donors WITH APPRECIATION so that
they are motivated and encouraged to
become repeat regular voluntary blood donor.
31. 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.