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Blood Management And Bedside Transfusion Articles & Analysis
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When you're just starting out in the world of healthcare, whether as a nursing student, medical trainee, or phlebotomy learner, few things feel as nerve-racking as your first needle insertion. You've read the textbooks, watched the tutorials, and maybe even practiced on an orange or a banana, but when it comes to human skin, confidence often lags behind theory. This guide is for you - the ...
Pregnancy and childbirth are critical moments in the life of a woman, marking the beginning of a new chapter in their lives with the arrival of a newborn. While most pregnancies and deliveries occur without significant complications, there are instances where the health of the mother, the baby, or both could be at risk. In such critical situations, blood transfusions can be a lifeline, ensuring ...
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 ...
As an emergency physician, I routinely have to make quick decisions that can impact the direction and quality of care for my patients. With the current high nursing turnover and short-staffing on many shifts, these decisions are even more important, as they can also positively or negatively impact provider stress and patient flow. Streamlined care for critical patients is extremely helpful to ...
As September and Blood Cancer Awareness Month wrap up, we want to reflect on a memorable conversation with Karen Thomas, a woman who received clonoSEQ® testing, and her physician, Dr. Hazma Hashmi, a hematologist-oncologist from the Medical University of South Carolina. At Adaptive, we know our diagnostic tests provide key information that help physicians and patients make treatment ...
What do rat poison and anticoagulation medicine have in common? As often happens in scientific discovery, research follows a twisted route to the most effective remedy. ...
Explore how B Medical Systems can help in the convalescent plasma therapy. Over 60 years ago, in 1959, Dr. Michael Rubenstein first used a process called plasmapheresis to save the life of a patient with a severe case of a blood disorder. Now, a more sophisticated version of the same treatment is being used to treat extreme cases of COVID-19. But how does this treatment work and is it ...
The first meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR 2005) regarding clusters of microcephaly cases and other neurologic disorders in some areas affected by Zika virus was held by teleconference on 1 February 2016. According to the Pan American Health Organization the Zika illness is caused by the bite of an ...
Italy experienced two imported cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 1994 and viewed the disease as a 'foreign' problem. Early, precautionary actions including: a 1989 ban on UK meat and bone meal (MBM), 1990 ban on UK beef, 1994 domestic ban on mammalian MBM to ruminants, and 1996 ban on UK live cattle, protected Italy from a much larger outbreak. In 2001 Italy implemented an ...
The Transfusion-Associated Graft-Versus-Host Disease (TA-GVHD) is a serious potential complication of blood transfusions that is essentially prevented by blood product irradiation. In this study, scattering profiles from lyophilised and irradiated samples of plasma (PL) and formed elements (MC) were compared with non-irradiated ones. Fresh blood specimens were obtained from volunteers by vein ...