بررسي علل معافيت از اهداء خون در اهداءكنندگان مراجعه كننده به پايگاه اننقال خون تهران

Survey of the reasons for the deferral of blood donors in Tehran Blood Tranfusion Center

By increasing the number of patients with infectious diseases such as AIDS, which can he transmitted by blood transfusion, volunteer blood donation and selecting donors with less risk factors have become a very important matter in world strategies to provide safe blood Investment on human and monetary resources for public training of motive creation of blood donor will bring a lot of long term benefits such as adequate and safe blood resources . In our research we have studied the causes and the prevalence of blood donors deferral. This is an observational study by reviewing the registration of rejected donors, in a six months period from autumn 1999 to winter 2000 we collected information about age, sex, job, marital status and the cause of rejection. The information was analysed by SPSS software. Out of the 163418 donors, 32226(21.1%) could not donate their blood, 80.7% were male and 19.35% female, 45.7% were single and 54.3% married.4. 7% of donors after filling the forms and reading the blood transfusion brochure, refused to donate their blood (self deferral). 98.65% of donors could not donate because ofpathologic causes. 91.8% of them were deferred temporarily and 8.81% permanently, 15.5% had unsafe sexual contact. which was the most common causes of rejections, 12.4% had antibiotic consumption, 11.5% had hypotension and 7.8% had done Hejarnat before. Most of the rejected donors were under 25 years old (40.7%) and business was the main job among them(33.1%). It seems that the rate of blood deferral in Tehran is very high and to decrese this rate we have to consider the main causes which are mostly temporary and then choose the best ways to remove them .