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Revista Medica Herediana

Print version ISSN 1018-130XOn-line version ISSN 1729-214X

Abstract

DE LA CRUZ DEL SOLAR, Rafael; PINO GODOY, Pavel; VIDAL ESCUDERO, Julio  and  RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR, Isaías. Social - Demografic profile of the blood giver at the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia Lima: Comparision Between 1988 and 1994. Rev Med Hered [online]. 2000, vol.11, n.2, pp.42-47. ISSN 1018-130X.

All the people who make a blood donation is asked about if the blood could be used for transfusion or just for research. In the 80´s, there was many information diffusion about this topic, but we don’t know if this campaigns worked to avoid non eligible blood donors make a blood donation. Objective: To compare sociodemographic characteristics between 1988 and 1994 blood donors to evaluate this. Material and methods: We made a comparative-retrospective study between historical groups. We selected 627 and 606 blood donors in 1988 and 1994 respectively. Results: 98% of blood donors in 1988 and 93.2% in 1994, hadn´t any of the diseases asked, 2.5% in 1988 maintained homosexual intercourse's sometime, in contrast 0% in 1994 (p<0.01) and 8.3% in 1988 maintained sexual intercourse's with prostitutes or unknowed people in the last 6 months, in 1994 the incidence was 6.4%. Conclusion: We found less high risk factors between 1994 blood donors than 1988, so the potential transmission of diseases in window period was minor. The selection of blood donors, rational use of transfusion and serologic screening are the main ways to make a good hemotherapy.( Rev Med Hered 2000; 11:42-47).

Keywords : Blood donors; transfusion; hemotherapy.

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