Blood Donation Articles & Analysis
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Advanced blood management practices also include the implementation of blood conservation strategies, such as autologous blood donation (where patients donate blood for their own future use) and intraoperative blood salvage. ...
Globally, there is a shortage of over 100M units of donor blood each year, which was made worse by COVID-19, which the WHO estimates reduced blood supply by 20 to 30 percent due to fewer blood drives, lockdown orders, and other infrastructure issues. Sisu Global, a medical device company, designed an autotransfusion product that allows patients ...
This is somewhat surprising seeing as alginates are commonly indicated not only for bleeding wounds, but also in other fields such as a haemostat in dental care or for nasal packing to combat heavy bleeding.2 It is worth noting the mechanism by which calcium is involved in haemostasis because clotting requires calcium ions(Ca2+). It is for this reason that blood banks use a ...