A study of transfusion related adverse events at a tertiary care centre in North India: an initiative towards hemovigilance

Transfusion Reactions Encountered at The Children’s Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore, Punjab – A Clinical Audit

“…In our present study, males were more affected than females similar to the study by Kumar et al [14]. However, Sidhu et al in their study found that females are more affected than males [15].…”

Acute blood transfusion reactions in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan ‐ an initiative towards haemovigilance

“…A total of 32 (0·15%) ATRs were documented in 32 patients (16 male and 16 female patients), and the relative incidence of transfusion reactions by total blood components issued was found to be 0·19, 0·10 and 0·06% by PRCs, platelets and FFP, respectively. Types of transfusion reactions observed in this study and their comparison to other national and international studies are depicted in Table (Khalid et al ., ; Bhattacharya et al ., ; Sousa Neto & Barbosa, ; Haslina et al ., ; Payandeh et al ., ; Gao et al ., ; Negi et al ., ; Sidhu et al ., ; Owusu‐Ofori et al ., ).…”

“…The overall incidence of acute adverse reactions in our study was 0·15%, which is lower than the results various haemovigilance systems over the globe have reported. A study performed in India reported an incidence of 0·27% (Sidhu et al ., ). Another study performed in a health‐care centre in India reported an incident rate of 0·2% (Negi et al ., ).…”

“…Various countries like United Kingdom and France have developed and implemented haemovigilance programmes to systematically collect and report adverse events associated with blood transfusion (Khalid et al ., ; Sidhu et al ., ). No haemovigilance system has been established in Pakistan.…”

Retrospective Evaluation of Adverse Reactions Associated with Blood Transfusions Reported in the Blood Banks of Kerala

“…(10) The incidence of adverse transfusion reactions reported in another one study was only 0.082%. (11) A study in Switzerland (12) and the Quebec haemovigilance system (13) reported transfusion reaction rates of 0.042% and 0.035% respectively.…”