Journal article
Is donating blood for the faint of heart? a systematic review of predictors of syncope in whole blood donors
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Adverse events during donation negatively impact the likelihood of subsequent donation. Syncope is a possible complication of blood donation in healthy individuals. This systematic review aims to identify risk factors for syncope in healthy blood donors.
STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Medline, Embase, Cochrane, CINAHL, Web of Science, Transfusion Evidence Library, and PubMed libraries up to November 2016 were searched. Inclusion criteria …
Authors
Donald SJ; McIntyre WF; Dingwall O; Hiebert B; Ponnampalam A; Seifer CM
Journal
Transfusion, Vol. 59, No. 9, pp. 2865–2869
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
September 2019
DOI
10.1111/trf.15442
ISSN
0041-1132