Haemovigilance (HV) is a system for detecting, recording and analysing information regarding any adverse effects and incidents that may occur during blood donation and transfusion (extraction, processing, verification, storage, distribution and transfusion of blood and blood components) in a comprehensive, rigorous and objective manner.
The aim of haemovigilance is to increase awareness of the abovementioned situations and thus raise the level of transfusion quality and safety by means of corrective and preventive measures.
The haemovigilance system requires cooperation between all the different parties involved: the Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST), the centre responsible for the donation and the blood donors, as well as those responsible for the preparation, storage and supply of blood components and the clinical services at the different hospital centres where the transfusion will finally take place.
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