Blood Donor Articles & Analysis: Older
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Blood management encompasses a range of practices aimed at ensuring the efficient use, storage, and preservation of blood and blood products. ...
Blood can be stored in a few different ways, but the most common method is refrigeration.Blood banks depend on donors to provide blood and blood components. When blood is collected from a donor, it must be processed to remove red blood cells and plasma (the liquid part of ...
Globally, there is a shortage of over 100M units of donor blood each year, which was made worse by COVID-19, which the WHO estimates reduced blood supply by 20 to 30 percent due to fewer blood drives, lockdown orders, and other infrastructure issues. ...
Despite causing illnesses that can be severe leading to blindness, heart damage and more, blood donor surveys have found that apparently healthy people carry the bacteria as part of their blood microbiome. A blood donor survey in Chile found 13.6% of blood donors were PCR ...
Hemafuse is a handheld device that uses a Yankauer suction tip to salvage blood from a patient with internal bleeding so the blood can be re-used in the patient if donor blood is unavailable or in limited supply. ...
The FDA inspection of the ReGen product manufacturer found problems with its process, including that the facility had not screened the umbilical cord blood donors for diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. ...
Using the K562-mb15-41BBL cell line as a stimulus, we obtained large numbers of activated NK cells from the peripheral blood of healthy donors. Expanded NK cells exerted remarkably high cytotoxicity against HCC cell lines, which was generally much higher than that of unstimulated or IL2-activated NK cells. ...
Results: For dressings used to treat the burn site, blood loss on the side treated with NuStat® was on average less (27g/100cm2) than the side treated with our historic standard of care (31g/100cm2), though it was not statistically significant (p=0.81). Similarly, on the donor site, blood loss on the side treated with NuStat® was on ...
To date only two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) have been reported. A limited blood donor exclusion policy is in place to prevent cases of blood transfusion mediated vCJD.Keywords: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vCJD, Italy, risk management, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, mad cow disease, variant CJD, food ...
Five cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) were reported in Spain between 2005 and 2010. Food safety and blood donor exclusion policies are in place to prevent further occurrence of vCJD.Keywords: risk management, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, vCJD, variant CJD, Spain, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, mad cow disease, food safety, ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the cytogenetic effect of radio-labelled octreotate in blood cells in vitro, using the cytokinesis-block micronucleus assay. Blood samples of healthy donors were exposed to different activities of octreotate labelled with 131I (n = 3) and 177Lu (n = 3), where radioactive concentration ranged from 600 to 5600 ...
Two earlier reported studies indicated the beneficial clinical effects of THIVAC, a therapeutic HIV vaccine derived from the blood of HIV-positive donors. However, in those studies no stringent statistical analysis to support the beneficial clinical outcome was attempted. ...
This value does not differ significantly from the coefficient of (6.55±0.97)×10–2 Gy–1 obtained earlier for a free-in-air set-up using blood of the same donor. The results are interpreted in terms of both the energy distributions of the photon fluence of mammography X-rays free-in-air and those in the PMMA phantom. ...