Care and selection of whole blood and component donors (including donors of pre-deposit autologous blood) - Chapter 3

• 3.1: Introduction
• 3.2: General principles
• 3.3: Assessment of fitness to donate
• 3.4: Informed consent
• 3.5: Donor age
• 3.6: Frequency of donation
• 3.7: Volume of donation
• 3.8: Medical history of donors
• 3.9: Genetically determined conditions
• 3.10: Donors on treatment with medications (drugs)
• 3.11: Transfusion-transmissible infectious disease
• 3.12: Travel history
• 3.13: Prion-associated diseases including sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD)
• 3.14: Physical examination of donors
• 3.15: Blood tests
• 3.16: Autologous donations
• 3.17: References