Experiencia en colectas de sangre móviles en una comunidad estudiantil universitaria

one of the main pillars of the transfusion safety is the blood collection from altruistic donors. blood collection using mobile equipments is a strategy favoring this type of donations. in present paper are described the strategies and the results obtained in execution of mobile collections performed in a university training center. collections were organized together between the blood center and the medical technologic school from the talca university. activity was carried out with students who were organized in different commissions. over a period of 5 years, 9 collections were performed achieving 352 volunteer selected donors, from which the 16% was of repeated donors. we concluded that execution of mobile blood collections in higher education community is a good strategy to increase the percentage of blood obtained from volunteer donors.