Perfil epidemiológico dos doadores de sangue autoexcluídos e não autoexcluídos do Centro de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Estado do Ceará

Abstract

The vow of self-exclusion aims to increase the safety of blood transfusion. The vow is a confidential procedure where the donor through a ballot of self-exclusion, defines if his blood is safe or not for transfusion. The intention of this study was to evaluate the profile of blood donors in general and self-excluded donors from the Hematology Center of the state of Ceará, from 2013 to 2014, according to gender, age, education, type of donation, reason of donation, seropositivity and NAT test. Thus it conducted a descriptive and retrospective study based on reports provided by the Technology sector of Information and Communication of the Blood Center. During this period, the HEMOCE received 108,421 blood donations, where most were from young men with high school completed. Donations were outnumbered of voluntary and first-time donors. Regarding the serology, it was found that 4.24% had seropositivity and 0.88% NAT test changed. In addition, 0.64% of donations were self-excluded, with the rate of self-exclusion being larger for males. As for the age group, it was observed that the most prevalent is between 18 and 28 years old, where most of the donors have a high school degree. Already on the donation reason, spontaneous donors are the most who exclude themselves and concerning the type of donation, first time donors predominate over the returning donors. Referring to self-excluded donations, 6.6% tested positive for any of the evaluated markers and 1.4% had changed NAT test. The results demonstrated the importance of self-exclusion tool in triage blood donors.