Blood Bank Articles
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The Importance of Organ Donation
Why should you donate organs? Organ donation is a way to save the lives of people who are sick, not healthy and in need of new organs. When someone’s organs are weak, they require a new one to continue living. Organ donation refers to the supply of a healthy organ, gained from either a living or passed away donor, to help an individual requiring a transplant to improve ...
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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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Fresh Frozen Plasma Storage
Correct fresh frozen plasma storage is vital for safe and efficient treatment of patients with blood clotting disorders in various situations.This article will explore fresh frozen plasma preparation, storage and uses and discuss the Froilabo products that can aid your fresh frozen plasma storage.Fresh Frozen Plasma PreparationPlasma is the liquid portion of whole blood. It contains many ...
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What is heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)?
Overview What is HFpEF? Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a clinical syndrome in which patients have signs and symptoms of HF as the result of high left ventricular (LV) filling pressure, despite normal or near-normal LV ejection fraction (EF). Most patients with HFpEF also display normal LV volumes and an abnormal diastolic filling pattern (i.e, diastolic ...
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Hands Only CPR vs Mouth to Mouth
Many people who know about CPR, think of it as “mouth to mouth”. Many of us learned CPR in school, or for a job when we were younger. But did you learn about hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth? For many of us, the rescue breaths seemed like an integral part of reviving someone. However, medical professionals have found that when we look at hands only CPR vs mouth to mouth, the results ...
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7 Things You Should Know About Artificial Hearts
Artificial hearts may sound like science fiction, but they’ve actually been in clinical use to help end-stage heart failure patients for more than 35 years — here’s what you should know. As the number of patients suffering from heart disease has increased over the years, so too has the need for heart transplants. Unfortunately, the global supply of donor hearts remains limited, ...
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What’s the difference between a heart attack, cardiac arrest and heart failure?
While heart attack, cardiac arrest and heart failure can sometimes be related, they’re actually three very different types of cardiac emergencies. Cardiac arrest, heart attack and heart failure — three terms that are familiar to most people, but often get confused with one another. While there can be some overlap between them in terms of cause and effect, they are actually three ...
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Artio’s Amplifi System Treatment Before AVF Creation Studied in FIH Procedures
October 6, 2021—Surendra Shenoy, MD, presented findings from a first-in-human (FIH) evaluation of the Amplifi vein dilation system (Artio Medical, Inc.), which is a small, wearable blood pump device that dilates arm veins before arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation. Amplifi is designed to improve AVF eligibility, reduce maturation failure, reduce time to maturation, and prolong primary ...
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UCT Silane Cited in Organ-On-Chip
The ventricular myocardium of the human heart is composed of an anisotropic tissue structure that allows for force generation and contraction to pump blood throughout the body. It has long been established that the collagen-rich, fibrous, extracellular matrix environment guides the formation of this laminar tissue architecture. The structural and mechanical properties of the cardiac ...
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World Oceans Day
A healthy world ocean is critical to our survival. This is the message that World Oceans Day is trying to remind people of. Oceans are vital to our planet. According to the World Oceans Day website, they are important because: They produce most of the oxygen we breathe They feed millions of people every year They regulate our climate They help to clean the water we drink They offer a ...
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The monocyte dysfunction induced by acute tetramine poisoning and corrected by continuous blood purification
The monocyte function of patients with severe tetramine poisoning and the effects of sequential hemoperfusion (HP) and continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH) on the immune status of the patients were investigated. Eleven patients with severe acute tetramine poisoning were treated with sequential HP and CVVH. The APACHE II score and Glasgow score were used to evaluate the disease status ...
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