AM24-TU-07-O: Oral Abstracts - SPOTLIGHT Administrative - Assessing Blood Donor Risks (Enduring)

Oral abstracts about assessing blood donor risks. Over half a century ago, the blood bank community, lead in the US by AABB and FDA, developed donor screening questions and eligibility criteria to determine if a given donor is at risk of transmitting an infectious disease through his/her donated blood. With the progression of time and with increased sophistication of surveillance to identify “risky” donors, the donor questions and eligibility have been refined to identify at-risk donors while decreasing the propensity to label such at-risk donors with pejorative language and increasing the sensitivity of donor screening processes and procedures. This session will highlight successes in enhanced donor risk assessment.