Quick Review Cards for Medical Laboratory Science

Donor Deferrals (AABB) Immunohematology Review 419

DEFERRAL CONDITION

2 days

2 weeks

4 weeks

6 weeks

8 weeks

12 months

3 years

Aspirin, if donor is sole source of platelets

Measles (rubeola), mumps, polio, typhoid, yellow fever vaccines

Rubella, chicken pox (varicella-zoster) vaccine

Pregnancy

Whole blood donation

Syphilis

Gonorrhea

Mucous membrane exposure to blood

Skin penetration with sharp contaminated with blood or body fluids

Household or sexual contact with individual with hepatitis

Sexual contact with individual with HIV or at high risk

Incarceration in correctional facility for >72 consecutive hr

Travel to Iraq or area endemic for malaria

Recipient of blood, blood components, plasma-derived clotting factor concentrates, or transplant

Malaria, or from an area endemic for malaria

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