Donating Blood as Stated by the American Red Cross It is said that 70% of Americans are eligible to give blood even though the criteria to donate seems quite strict. Each case is treated individually based on why the person is donating. An autologous donor is one who is giving blood to use for them self if needed during a future surgery. All others are anonymous donors who donate blood for others to use when it is needed. I will discuss the reasons why a person could not donate blood as an anonymous
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Blood Pressure – Making a formal inference We often talk about a person’s “blood pressure” as though it is an inherent characteristic of that person. In fact‚ a person’s blood pressure is different each time you measure it. Blood pressure reacts to stress‚ diet and genetics. Gender | BP | BP1 | BP2 | BP3 | BP5 | BP7 | BP10 | BP15 | diet | female | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | LowFat | female | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | 103.3 | LowFat | male
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What conditions disqualify you from donating blood? Some people are disqualified from donating blood because they have diseases that are transmissible via blood. Other potential donors are disqualified because their conditions could endanger themselves. According to American Red Cross‚ these are the conditions may disqualify you in donating blood: Being positive for the AIDS and Hepatitis Viruses‚ being imprisoned rules‚ your age is not below 17 year old‚ pregnant and recent childbirth‚ if a person
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17: Blood Objectives Overview: Blood Composition and Functions 1. Describe the composition and physical characteristics of whole blood. Explain why it is classified as a connective tissue. 2. List eight functions of blood. Blood Plasma 3. Discuss the composition and functions of plasma. Formed Elements 4. Describe the structure‚ function‚ and production of erythrocytes. 5. Describe the chemical makeup of hemoglobin. 6. Give examples of disorders caused by abnormalities
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Donating Blood Imagine that your father had just suffered a heart attack‚ and has to go through open-heart surgery in order to repair the damage that happened to his heart. Imagine your little nephew or niece was born with a rare heart defect and had to have a daily transfusion of blood in order to have a chance to wake up the next day. Imagine that your best friend went to the doctor and had just been diagnosed with leukemia‚ a disease requiring regular platelet transfusions. These aren’t
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BLOOD DONATION CAMP The Blood Donation Camp was hosted by St. John’s Medical Hospital on 18th December‚ 2012. 5 Doctors and 15 nurses had come to college and set up their hospital requirements in the Auditorium. The donation camp began at 10.30 am when various students had come forward to donate blood. Unfortunately for some‚ due to reasons like low blood count‚ blood pressure‚ recovery from various diseases‚ etc. they could not do so. Candidates who were not able to donate blood surely went disappointed
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remember being covered was blood donation. Blood donation and blood collection is very important in order to keep the blood banks full for when blood is needed and so knowing about blood donation‚ and how blood banks collect and distribute blood is very important. If you are assigned a paper on the topic though‚ there is a variety of news and information on blood donation. While the essay you may be asked to write may include information on blood collection or blood drives local to where you live‚ there
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Blood typing has changed the world in a good way. Thanks to blood typing‚ people can now know what their blood type is‚ whether it is A‚ B‚ AB‚ or O. With blood typing‚ blood transfusion is safer because it makes sure that the blood of the individual who requires transfusion and the blood type that is being transfused‚ is capable together. If blood typing didn’t exist and blood were to be transfused to another person‚ it could cause problems within the individual if the two blood types were not
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The Ultimate Gift Imagine that one day you were driving to the mall and out of nowhere‚ someone run through a red light and crashed straight in to you. You end up in the hospital‚ needing a blood transfusion. The scene is all too real and it happens every day. In a single car accident‚ a person could need up to 100 pints of blood. The average person can donate 3 pints every 56 days (redcrossblood.org). This is why‚ today‚ I urge you to go out and donate blood. I know some of you may hate the thought
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TB0245 Andreas Schotter Mary Teagarden Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia No one laughs at the banana in its areas of origin. It is too serious a business‚ on which jobs and lives depend. Peter Chapman‚ Author of Jungle Capitalists. For Chiquita Brands International‚ a pioneer in the globalization of the banana industry‚ bananas are not only serious business‚ they represent an array of economic‚ social‚ environmental‚ political‚ and legal hassles. Since its founding more than a hundred years
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