Blood Storage Articles
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Blood Storage and Preservation
How Is Blood Stored and Preserved? Blood storage is an important process in the blood banking industry as it helps maintain the quality of blood and its medical effectiveness. 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 ...
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Meet the Entrepreneur: Carolyn Yarina and Gillian Henker, Sisu Global
At FINCA Ventures, we look for entrepreneurs leveraging market-based solutions to create large-scale, lasting social impact. In this series, “Meet the Entrepreneur,” we’ll be taking you into the minds of the intrepid leaders at our portfolio companies who boldly venture into markets in need of positive disruption. Globally, there is a shortage of over 100M units of donor blood ...
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The Medtech Big 100 is bigger than ever
The Medtech Big 100 — Medical Design & Outsourcing‘s annual revenue ranking of the world’s largest medical device companies — is growing again and the pump appears primed for more. You may recall that last year’s analysis of the industry’s 100 largest firms revealed a year-over-year drop in combined sales as the COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside ...
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Autotransfusion device maker ships units to Ukraine
The developer of an autotransfusion device for collecting and cleaning a patient’s lost blood is sending hundreds of units to Ukraine as casualties climb from the Russian invasion. Baltimore-based Sisu Global Health has already sent 1,005 of its Hemafuse devices to hospitals in Kyiv and is planning a third shipment of 500 more any day now, co-founder and President Gillian Henker said. ...
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Calcium Alginate Wound Dressings - Still Relevant Forty Years On!
SFM has been producing alginate products since the early 1980’s and still to this day alginates are an important product for our business. Alginate dressings are classed as ‘advanced wound care’, a label that up until now I have strongly disagreed with. How can a relatively simple dressing be thought of as ‘advanced’ in the current market? With newer ...
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Chinese company implants 3-D printed blood vessels into monkeys
Beijing, China (CNN)A major breakthrough in 3-D printed medicine could bring hope to nearly 1.8 billion patients with cardiovascular disease. Chinese scientists working for Sichuan Revotek have successfully 3-D printed blood vessels and implanted them in rhesus monkeys, the company said. It is a major step on the road to mass printing human organs for transplants. The company ...
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Brain region distribution and patterns of bioaccumulative perfluoroalkyl carboxylates and sulfonates in East Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus)
The present study investigated the comparative accumulation of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in eight brain regions of polar bears (Ursus maritimus, n = 19) collected in 2006 from Scoresby Sound, East Greenland. The PFAAs studied were perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs, C6–C15 chain lengths) and sulfonates (C4, C6, C8, and C10 chain lengths) as well as selected precursors including ...
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