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Article R1221-22 of the French Public Health Code

The aim of transfusion safety is to identify hazards that have caused, are causing or are likely to cause incidents or adverse reactions that have threatened, are threatening or may threaten the health of donors or recipients, in order to eliminate or reduce the associated risks. Haemovigilance is a component of transfusion safety. It involves, for any donation of blood or blood components and for any labile blood product: 1°…

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Article R1221-23 of the French Public Health Code

For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply 1° Adverse reaction: a harmful reaction in donors associated or possibly associated with the collection of blood or in recipients associated or possibly associated with the administration of a labile blood product; 2° Serious adverse reaction: an adverse reaction resulting in death or life-threatening, disabling or incapacitating, or causing or prolonging hospitalisation or any other morbid condition; 3° Incident…

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Article R1221-25 of the French Public Health Code

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé is responsible for implementing haemovigilance and transfusion safety. It defines the guidelines, leads and coordinates the actions of the various parties involved and ensures compliance with the monitoring procedures organised by this section. Where necessary, it shall take appropriate measures to ensure transfusion safety or refer the matter to the competent authorities. In order to carry out this…

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Article R1221-26 of the French Public Health Code

The Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé provides the Etablissement français du sang and the centre de transfusion sanguine des armées with information relating to the safety and quality of labile blood products resulting from the performance of the vigilance tasks relating to health products mentioned in article R. 1413-61-4.

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Article R1221-27 of the French Public Health Code

Each year, the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé draws up a summary report on haemovigilance and transfusion safety. This report is sent to the Minister for Health and to the European Commission by 30 June of the following year at the latest.

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Article R1221-33 of the French Public Health Code

At the request of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé or the Director General of the regional health agency, or on his own initiative, the regional haemovigilance and transfusion safety coordinator shall obtain from the relevant haemovigilance and transfusion safety correspondent(s) any information that blood or health establishments collect and hold in application of this chapter. On the basis of this information, the coordinator…

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Article R1221-36 of the French Public Health Code

I.-Each blood establishment is required to collect and keep, for each unit of labile blood product which it prepares, the following information: 1° The identification of the donation of blood or blood components from which the unit was obtained and the identification of the donor ; 2° The results of the biological analyses and screening tests carried out on the donation; 3° The identification of the blood establishment to which…

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Article R1221-37 of the French Public Health Code

At the request of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, the blood establishment shall collect and keep all the information necessary for haemovigilance and transfusion safety to which it has access and which relates to : 1° Scheduled autologous transfusions in which the establishment has participated ; 2° Pre-transfusion and, where appropriate, post-transfusion examinations carried out on the patient; 3° The storage, for subsequent…

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Article R1221-38 of the French Public Health Code

Health establishments send their referring blood establishment the information mentioned in II of article R. 1221-36 and in 2° of article R. 1221-37. Decisions by the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (French Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products) taken after consultation with the Etablissement français du sang (French Blood Establishment) and the Armed Forces Blood Transfusion Centre…

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