Table 1.
Types and severity of acute transfusion reactions seen with different blood components.
| Type of component | Total units issued | Total reactions n (%) | Type of TR(n)/grade of severity |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passively reported | Grade of severity | Identified during active surveillance | Grade of severity | |||
| FFP | 582 | 2(22.2 %) | 1 Allergic | Grade 1 | 1 TACO | Grade 3 |
| LD-PRBC | 509 | 5(55.6 %) | 1 FNHTR | Grade 1 | 3 TACO | Grade 2 & 3 |
| 1 AHTR | Grade 1 | |||||
| CRYO | 416 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| RDPC | 260 | 1(11.1 %) | 0 | N/A | 1 TACO | Grade 2 |
| LD-SDPC | 70 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A |
| Total | 1837 | 8 + 1*(100 %) | 2 (0.4 %) | 6 + 1*(1.4 %) | ||
N/A: Not Applicable.
N.B. 1*: One TACO case was associated with transfusion of multiple components.