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    blood donation

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    Be an Angel and donate blood Can you believe that if you are 18 years old or older you can be someone’s saviour? You don’t have to have special powers‚ to be that all you need is yourself and the nearest blood bank. I was a 7 year old girl with kidney failure. Here in Kuwait there were no medicines for me‚ so my dad took me to London hoping for treatment and we found it. The doctors at the hospital scheduled me for an urgent surgery. But there were not enough blood units for them to start the operation

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    blood pressure

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    Assessing Blood Pressure Anatomy of the Heart The heart is located in the thoracic cavity between the lungs within the mediastinum. It is a hollow‚ cone-shaped‚ muscular organ about the size of a fist. Functions of the Heart keeps O2-poor blood separate from O2-rich blood; keeps the blood flowing in one direction—blood flows away from and then back to the heart in each circuit; creates blood pressure‚ which moves the blood through the circuits; Regulates the blood supply based on

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    Blood Brothers

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    Blood Brothers Blood Brothers is set in Liverpool‚ and was written in 1983 by Willy Russell. The musical is set in Liverpool. The 1980’s started with probably Liverpool’s lowest point of unemployment and because of that riots broke out in Toxteth along with other UK cities.  The area saw huge job losses and the population halved as people left Liverpool to seek work elsewhere. The UK’s view of Liverpool also suffered badly through the way they were

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    Cold Blood

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    In the non-fiction novel In Cold Blood‚ Truman Capote (1965) gives his own narrative of the Holcomb tragedy in which a family of four living out on a secluded farm were slaughtered with a shotgun by the collaboration of two individuals for a seemingly few dollars. In this novel‚ Capote gives a thorough character description of the two murderers‚ Richard Hickock and Perry Smith‚ as he recreates their experience (much as he sees it as it would be from their eyes). He gives accounts preceding the event

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    Bloods and Crips

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    The Bloods and the Crips The United States has had problems with gangs dated back as early as the 1800s. In today’s society when people hear about gangs the first two gangs that they think of are the Bloods and the Crips. Both of these gangs originated about forty years ago but are still going strong today. Although‚ at first these gangs were formed as a sort of territorial war the activities of the gang members has grown increasingly more dangerous. The Bloods and the Crips are mortal enemies

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    Blood Notes

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    REVIEW SHEET EXERCISE 11 Blood Analysis NAME: ELIZABETH ZANDONA Hematocrit Determination 1. Hematocrit values are usually ( higher / lower ) in healthy males‚ compared to healthy females. Give one possible explanation for this. MALES HAVE A HIGHER BLOOD VOLUME? 2. Living at high elevations will cause a person’s hematocrit to ( increase / decrease ). Explain your answer. INCREASE- THE DECREASE OF OXYGEN WILL CAUSE AN INCREASE OF RED BLOOD CELL PRODUCTION 3. Long-term athletic training

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    Blood Diamonds

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    off of subsistence agriculture‚ however‚ Diamond mining is considered for half of Sierra Leone’s exports. Diamonds were first discovered in Sierra Leone in 1930‚ and a war broke out between 1991 and 2002 over diamonds that led to the name blood diamonds. Blood diamonds are defined by diamond mining in a war zone‚ that people trade the diamonds for guns so then the diamonds go on to be sold to companies. It was not till January 1999‚ when people all round the world’s eyes were drawn to Sierra Leone

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    Blood Disorders

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    may have the sickle cell trait. I would say that it would be hard to determine if Devon has a blood disorder because he has no symptoms. I do think that Devon is at risk of having sickle cell. Sickle cell is a disease that is inherited. African-Americans are at greater risk for the disease than any other ethnic group. Sickle cell is caused by genetic abnormality. It is diagnosed by a blood test. The blood test measures the amount of abnormal sickle hemoglobin. Sickle cell can be treated by medications

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    Blood Donation

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    Russell-Bennett‚ R.‚ Hartel‚ C.E.J.‚ Previte‚ J.‚ Russell‚ K. (2012) "It’s all about me! Emotional-Ambivalence Gen-Y Blood Donors‚ In conference proceedings of American Marketing Association Services Special Interest Group‚ Helsinki Finland‚ June 7-9 Purpose While the Australian-Red-Cross-Blood-Service has been effective at acquiring new youth donors‚ in recent years the retention rate has declined. One reason suggested for the lack of loyalty is the emotional ambivalence created by the motivational

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    blood pressure

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    placement‚ I encountered an obese elderly man with type 2 diabetes who was bed bound. His BP was 98/73 so I decided to do a manual blood pressure (BP) to make sure it was not a mechanical error from the automatic machine and recorded 99/75. His other vital signs were in between the flags. I asked my patient how he was feeling‚ he said he felt fine. I told him his blood pressure was a bit low and if this was normal for him. He said it has been low a bit recently. I asked him if he could have a glass

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