Leading Hematologic and Serologic Causes of Blood Donor Deferral at James L. Gordon Memorial Hospital

CHAPTER I
THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING
INTRODUCTION

Each year, more than 14 million units of blood and products are collected from 6 million people who walk into their local donation center , appear at mobile blood drives or donate at any one of multiple creative spots where the trained blood drawing staff can be found. These people provide for the million of patients who are transfused every year. The reason why someone donates blood can be as varied as the type of people who donate. The basic reason break down into four (areas) (1) altruistic volunteer donation (2) donation to replace products used (3) donation to cover family and friends in some type of insurance program and (4) donation for pay. The last category, paid donors, are not used in today blood banks. Although they continue to play an important part in supplying certain products necessary for patient care, paid donors are found exclusively in that industry which provide plasma for pharmaceutical products.
Donors are ...