• A blood product is any therapeutic substance prepared from human blood. This includes whole blood; blood components; and plasma derivatives. Whole blood...
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  • Contaminated hemophilia blood products were a serious public health problem in the late 1970s up to 1985. Hemophilia A causes a deficiency in Factor VIII...
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    waste products away from those same cells. Blood is composed of blood cells suspended in blood plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid,...
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    Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions...
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    A blood type (also known as a blood group) is a classification of blood, based on the presence and absence of antibodies and inherited antigenic substances...
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    Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of...
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  • Louisiana. It is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded "Tru Blood" that has allowed vampires to "come out of the coffin" and...
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    a result of receiving infected blood or infected clotting factor products in the United Kingdom. Many of the products were imported from the United States...
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    clinical pathology laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where pre-transfusion and blood compatibility testing is performed. However, it...
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    Packed red blood cells, also known as packed cells, are red blood cells that have been separated for blood transfusion. The packed cells are typically...
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    diffuse through the red blood cell's cell membrane. Hemoglobin in the red blood cells also carries some of the waste product carbon dioxide back from...
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    be used to administer medications or other medical therapy such as blood products or electrolytes to correct electrolyte imbalances. Attempts at providing...
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  • platelets, and blood plasma. Other fractions derived from blood are not prohibited. Watch Tower publications state that some products derived from one...
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  • blood cells (or leukocytes) from the blood or blood components supplied for blood transfusion. After the removal of the leukocytes, the blood product...
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    hypovolemia (insufficient blood volume or extracellular fluid in the body). It can be caused by severe dehydration or blood loss. Hypovolemic shock is...
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    units of blood products transfused increases. Table 1 shows the volume transfused with each blood product. Multiple blood products and blood products with...
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    Anemia (redirect from Tired blood)
    English) is a blood disorder in which the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen. This can be due to a lower than normal number of red blood cells, a...
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    Sepsis (redirect from Blood poisoning)
    or blood flow. The presence of low blood pressure, high blood lactate, or low urine output may suggest poor blood flow. Septic shock is low blood pressure...
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  • responsible. The Service provides blood and blood products for humans. The service is the successor to the National Blood Transfusion Association which was...
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  • Pancytopenia (redirect from Low blood cells)
    almost all blood cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, monocytes, lymphocytes, etc.). If only two parameters from the complete blood count...
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  • protein- and nucleic acid-based drugs, distinguishing them from products like blood, blood components, or vaccines, which are usually extracted directly...
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    received transfusions of blood products derived from these plasma products, Factor VIII, died as a result. Factor 8 examines a prison blood-harvesting scheme...
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    specific genetic susceptibility. Spread may potentially also occur via blood products or contaminated surgical equipment. Diagnosis is by brain biopsy but...
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  • Cryoprecipitate (category Blood products)
    Cryoprecipitate, also called cryo for short, is a frozen blood product prepared from blood plasma. To create cryoprecipitate, fresh frozen plasma thawed...
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    a number of blood products including packed red blood cells, platelet concentrate, cryoprecipitate, and fresh frozen plasma. Whole blood has similar risks...
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    the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, a cured salted form for times of food scarcity, or in a blood soup. This is a product from domesticated...
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    produces urea in the urea cycle as a waste product of the digestion of protein. Normal human adult blood should contain 7 to 18 mg/dL (0.388 to 1 mmol/L)...
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  • blood. It aims to provide an alternative to blood transfusion, which is transferring blood or blood-based products from one person into another. Thus far,...
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    edema Transfusion associated Acute Lung Injury is a specific type of blood-product transfusion injury that occurs when the donors plasma contained antibodies...
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  • transfusion is a blood transfusion in which the patient's blood or components of it are exchanged with (replaced by) other blood or blood products. The patient's...
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