Restless legs syndrome in frequent blood donors and its relationship with ferritin levels and red cell indices.

Introduction: Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is characterized by an urge to move the legs or arms, associated with uncomfortable sensations. Frequent blood donation is one of the known risk factors for RLS. Earlier studies have shown that the prevalence of RLS varies between 4% and 18% among blood donors.

Association of donor characteristics with coagulation factor levels in fresh frozen plasma.

Background: Coagulation factors are essential to maintain normal hemostasis. Plasma for transfusion can be obtained from whole blood donation or plasma apheresis. Plasma obtained from whole blood donation is termed as fresh frozen plasma (FFP).

Structured feedback: A teaching and learning tool for the postgraduate medical students in transfusion medicine.

Context: Structured Feedback is a learning and assessment tool designed to provide feedback to students and educators to adjust learning and teaching during the training. Lack of provision of structured feedback to postgraduate (PG) medical students prompted us to plan a study to introduce a structured feedback module into the existing monthly assessment schedules in the Department of Transfusion Medicine.

Aim: This study aims to introduce a structured feedback module and evaluate its efficacy after incorporation into the existing monthly assessment schedules for the PG students in the Department of Transfusion Medicine.

Convalescent Plasma the Experience and Journey from Blockbuster to Incognito: A Single Centre Experience.

Background: Convalescent plasma has been used to provide passive immunotherapy to patients with COVID-19 with a high level of safety. Very few efficacy studies were available, and due to COVID being a relatively new disease, its exact therapeutic role was unclear. This observational study on the impact of COVID convalescent plasma (CCP) on clinical outcomes attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of convalescent COVID-19 plasma therapy in the treatment of COVID-19 patients at the tertiary care center in the Uttarakhand state of India.

Adding further evidence for clinically significant anti-Le antibody in a voluntary blood donor.

Herein, we report a case of naturally occurring anti-Le alloantibody identified in the plasma of a first time voluntary blood donor. The immunohematology workup was done on the pilot sample tubes collected during blood donation by the conventional tube technique and using ID-Micro Column System Glass Beads card (anti-IgG, Cd; Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, New Jersey, USA). Blood group of the donor was confirmed to be B RhD positive, and the alloantibody in his plasma was identified as anti-Le, having clinically significant characteristics.

Altered Red Cell Indices in Repeat Blood Donors: Experience of a North Indian Blood Bank.

Subclinical Iron deficiency appearing in blood donors after blood donation is a recognized problem. Donors at an increased risk of iron deficiency need to be identified. Blood donors meeting national selection criteria were included in the study.

Storage of blood samples at or above 33℃ leads to rapid appearance of appreciable systemic bias in platelet and mean corpuscular volume related parameters: an important pre-analytical factor in tropical conditions.

There is scant documentation of the stability of common haematological parameters on storage of blood samples under tropical conditions. KEDTA samples in multiple vials were taken from 20 healthy blood donors, baseline readings taken, and stored at 33°C and 37°C. Readings from the stored vials were taken after 1, 3 and 6 h.

Storage stability of commonly used haematological parameters at 33 °C: Electronic supplementary material available online for this article.

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the analytical bias in haematological parameters induced by storage at 33 ºC.

Materials And Methods: Blood from the diversion pouch of 20 blood donors were collected in K EDTA vials and stored at 33 ºC. Readings from each vial were taken at 0, 4, 6, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours after collection on the Sysmex XP-100 analyser (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan).