Haemovigilance Fact and Fiction

Authors: Smit Sibinga CTh* and Abdella YE

DOI: 10.23880/hij-16000163

Volume 4, Issue 1

Abstract

Vigilance comes from the Latin vigilare which means ‘keeping awake’, or ‘being alert’. In practice it translates into a surveillance mechanism to watch characteristics of something, e.g., pharmaceuticals (pharmacovigilance), biologicals (Latin vigilare) and blood products (haemovigilance). The observations start at the consumer side, tracing back to the origin, root cause.

Keywords: Haemovigilance; Latin vigilare; Latin vigilare; pharmacovigilance

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