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WHILE YOU ARE READING THIS SOMEONE IN AMERICA NEEDS BLOOD:
- Blood is needed every two seconds
- About 1 in 5 people entering a hospital need blood
- Blood is always needed for the treatment of accident victims, cancer patients, hemophiliacs and surgery patients
- Blood cannot be manufactured or harvested
Blood supplies come from caring donors like you.
When you give blood, you give someone another laugh, another hug, another chance.
IT'S ABOUT ONE HOUR OF YOUR TIME.IT'S ABOUT LIFE.
Hospital patients cannot take a break from needing blood...
Collections in the Great Lakes Region are down about 100 units of blood a day - or about 15%.
Hospital patients across Michigan need blood products now for emergency and ongoing medical needs.
Those patients depend on blood donations that can only come from volunteer blood donors.
We expect blood demand to rise because of severe travel-related accidents. A victim of a car crash may need from 40- to 100-units of blood products to stay alive.
American Red Cross
What happens to your blood donation?
Blood is made up of several elements that perform special functions in your body. Because your whole blood donation will be divided into parts to meet various medical needs, your donation can help up to three different people. The most well-known components derived from whole blood are red cells, platelets and plasma.
Help save lives. Donate blood.
Call 1-800-GIVE LIFE
PLATELETS are cell fragments or particles in blood that help form clots and stop bleeding. Platelets are transfused to patients who experience bleeding because they can’t produce enough platelets of their own. Many platelet recipients are children undergoing treatment for extremely serious health problems like leukemia, cancer and euplastic anemia.
Shelf life: 5 days
PLASMA is the liquid yellow portion of blood. It carries nutrients, removes waste, and serves as an energy source, a regulator of body functions, a system for infection fighting, and coagulation. Plasma may be frozen and processed into several specialized blood products.
• Fresh frozen plasma (FFP)--used for transfusions to patients with bleeding
complications
• Cryoprecipitate--needed by people with classic hemophilia and common clotting
disorders
• Albumin--needed by burn victims, in emergencies related to accident or shock cases, and in the treatment of certain kidney and liver diseases
• Immune globulin--used to supplement a patient’s immune system, to battle various microbial disease, or for clotting
• Fibrin bandages--now under development by Holland Laboratory, these plasma derived bandages could be used on battlefields or on the scene of serious accidents where bleeding contributes to loss of life.
Shelf life: Several years; varies by plasma product
RED CELLS carry oxygen from the lungs to all other tissues in the body. These cells pick up carbon dioxide from tissues that is then carried back and released into the lungs. Red cells help patients who are anemic because of blood loss.
Shelf life: 42 days, unless frozen; frozen cells may be outdated up to 10 years
For more information on Blood Drive
dates and times visit the
Livingston County Red Cross
web site.
For more information contact theLivingston County Red Cross
(517) 546-0326
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