Saving a Life: Blood Donation Deana Taylor February 8‚ 2013 I. Introduction A. Attention-Getter- Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines blood as‚ “the fluid that circulates in the heart‚ arteries‚ capillaries‚ and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body.” Blood is the essence of life itself created in our own bodies in the bone marrow. B. Blood donation is a relatively simple process that can save lives
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Blood types My team and I decided to do our poster project on blood types. With this topic‚ I will be explaining the benefits and risks of having a blood transfusion. In a situation where a person has lost lot’s of their blood because of an accident‚ has really low hemoglobin. This person would not be in a good situation because hemoglobin is the structure in the blood which carries oxygen in the arteries which will eventually go to your organs. With a blood transfusion‚ the person will receive
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Examine how Russell portrays the characters Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons In the musical.Look closely at what they say and how they say it and refer closely to the text in your answer. I think Willy Russell has portrayed Mrs Johnstone as a loving and caring person knowing instinctively what’s right and what’s wrong. She always involves her family when she thinks of life and just thinks of simple things as luxury. This shows she is quite poor. Although she doesn’t have much money still she tries
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you about the street gang known as the Bloods. I will be discussing the origin of the gang‚ some of the gang’s important members and the impact the gang has on the present day. It all began in 1971 when the gang that eventually came to establish the Bloods was created. The name of this gang was the Piru Street Boys and they were actually a set of the Crip gang‚ today’s biggest rivals of the Bloods. When the Piru Street Boys began their operations they were working on Piru Street in Compton‚ Los
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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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Shakespeare uses blood as an important symbol to illustrate the characters feelings and beliefs. Blood is used everywhere in Macbeth‚ the beginning in the battle field scenes‚ after they kill Duncan‚ when Banque was killed and at the end when Lady Macbeth feels that blood has stained her. Blood is used in Macbeth to symbolize many things and the meaning of blood slowly progresses throughout the play. Blood in the play symbolizes different things as the play goes by; the imagery of blood goes from meaning
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Introduction When the heart beats‚ it pumps blood round the body to give it the energy and oxygen it needs. As the blood moves‚ it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. The strength of this pushing is your blood pressure. If the blood pressure is too high‚ it puts extra strain on your arteries (and your heart) and this may lead to heart attacks and strokes. Having high blood pressure (hypertension) is not usually something that you feel or notice. It does not tend to produce obvious signs
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Artificial Blood Use the following text and websites to research information about the progress in the production of artificial blood and use available evidence to propose reasons why such research is needed USE THE BRIEF SCAFFOLD SUPPLIED BELOW TO WRITE A REPORT ABOUT ARTIFCIAL BLOOD ------------------------------------------------- Introduction – A paragraph addressing questions 1 and 2 ------------------------------------------------- Body – Paragraphs addressing questions 3‚ 4‚ and
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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
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The skill I was observed on was for undertaking a blood pressure measurement. In undertaking this assignment‚ I have maintained confidentiality and I asked the patient for her consent to carry out procedure for measuring blood pressure according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008). I was directly supervised and observed by my mentor for all the activities undertaken. I will discuss how I took blood pressure of a patient and further explain rationale behind doing specific way. I will
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