[Distinctive tabard: A solution to avoid work interruptions in the blood transfusion?].

Aim: In the blood transfusion, the interruption of work (IW) can lead to serious incidents and/or adverse effects. The aim of our work is to evaluate the wearing of a distinctive tabard in the IW.

Methods: Several voluntary departments from 5 establishments of health in the Center-Val de Loire region have participated in this work from October to December 2017.

[Analysis of causes of destruction of labile blood products in health institutions: A multicentric study].

Objective: One of the tasks of haemovigilance correspondents in Health Institutions (HI) is to reduce the destruction of labile blood components (LBC). The objective of this study was to analyse in depth, five years after a first multicentric study, the causes of LBC destruction in order to assess the impact of measures taken and to define new ways of improvement.

Methods: Prospective analysis was carried out throughout 2016.

[Is the research of posttransfusional alloantibodies still relevant?].

Unlabelled: The decision of November 6th, 2006 defining the principles of best practices recommends that posttransfusional red cell alloantibodies research is performed after one to three months after. In the University hospital of Brest, the haemovigilance unit takes charge of sending the medical prescription within the required time and centralizing the results. We wished to estimate if the realization of this research still remains relevant.

[Indicators of transfusion decision in acute geriatric ward with an exclusive emergency room recruitment].

Objective: Description of the transfusion practice and its specificities in a geriatric unit.

Patients And Methods: Prospective descriptive study realized by a single consultant.

Inclusion Criteria: patients admitted in the unit between 01/10/2011 and 31/01/2012 with hemoglobin level below 10 g/dL.

[Evaluation of transfusion hemochromatosis prevalence, SFVTT-01 study: preliminary results of the SFVTT working group].

Rational: Although notification of post-transfusion hemosiderosis is mandatory since 1994 among the French hemovigilance network, it is so far largely under reported.

Patients And Methods: We screened 42,443 patients hospitalized for blood diseases in France in 2009 and 2010 and determined which patients had received more than 20 PRC. Among them, we selected those having at least one measure of serum ferritin, and subsequently those which ferritin was greater than or equal to 1000 ng/mL.