Blood Bank Flashcards
1
Q
How many days of deferral for: aspirin
A
2 days
2
Q
Deferral period: 2 weeks
A
Measles, mumps, polio, typhoid, yellow fever vaccines
3
Q
Deferral period: 4 weeks
A
Rubella, chicken pox vaccine, re-donate plasma apheresis
4
Q
Deferral period: 6 weeks
A
Pregnancy
5
Q
Deferral period: 8 weeks
A
Whole blood donation (gives BM time to rejuvenate)
6
Q
Deferral period: 16 weeks
A
Double RBC apheresis donation (2 units RBCs)
7
Q
Deferral period: 3 months
A
- Mucous membrane exposure to blood, tattoo
- Needlestick exposure
- Household or sexual contact with hepatitis/HIV individual
- PrEP medicine to prevent HIV
- Incarceration >72 hrs
- Malaria travel
(Basically hepatitis and HIV risk, needlestick, jail, malaria travel)
8
Q
Deferral period: 12 months
A
Recipient of blood components or transplant
9
Q
Deferral period: 3 years
A
Had malaria or came from area endemic to malaria
10
Q
Deferral period: permanent
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- CJD family hx/risk
- Viral hepatitis after 11th birthday (HBV, HCV risk)
- Repeatedly reactive anti-HBc on >1 occasion
- Present or past HIV, HCV, HTLV infection with lab evidence
- Hx babesiosis or Chagas’ disease
