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    Whole blood (WB) is human blood from a standard blood donation. It is used in the treatment of massive bleeding, in exchange transfusion, and when people...
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    fractionation (separation of whole blood components). A donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly (apheresis). Blood banks often participate...
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    of the blood. Early transfusions used whole blood, but modern medical practice commonly uses only components of the blood, such as red blood cells, plasma...
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    contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. It is the intravascular part of...
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    By volume, the red blood cells constitute about 45% of whole blood, the plasma about 54.3%, and white cells about 0.7%. Whole blood (plasma and cells)...
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  • experimenting with blood doping, also known as blood loading. Special Forces operators would provide two units of whole blood, from which red blood cells would...
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  • Retrieved August 10, 2024. "New Release: One Unit Whole Blood". GOG.com. "Blood: One Unit Whole Blood". Steam. "Getting to Know "Priest:" Manhwa Artist...
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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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    The blood sugar level, blood sugar concentration, blood glucose level, or glycemia is the measure of glucose concentrated in the blood. The body tightly...
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    of blood donation agencies and list of blood donation agencies in the United States. Several types of blood transfusion exist:[citation needed] Whole blood...
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  • In blood banking, the fractions of Whole Blood used for transfusion are also called components. Reference ranges for common blood tests "Harmonisation...
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  • Witnesses' literature teaches that their refusal of transfusions of whole blood or its four primary components—red cells, white cells, platelets, and...
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    the blood is stored, and within a short duration is used. Blood can be given as a whole product or the red blood cells separated as packed red blood cells...
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    Platelet (redirect from Blood platelet)
    platelets. Pooled whole-blood platelets, sometimes called "random" platelets, are separated by one of two methods. In the US, a unit of whole blood is placed...
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  • (reference intervals) for blood tests are sets of values used by a health professional to interpret a set of medical test results from blood samples. Reference...
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  • from whole blood using ficoll, a hydrophilic polysaccharide that separates layers of blood, and gradient centrifugation, which will separate the blood into...
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    equivalent," even though they are measuring whole blood glucose. The plasma equivalent is calculated from the whole blood glucose reading using an equation built...
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    halting blood loss by setting a goal of 90 mmHg systolic blood pressure hemostatic resuscitation: restoring blood volume in ways (with whole blood or equivalent)...
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    Phlebotomy (category Blood tests)
    carried out in the treatment of some blood disorders are known as therapeutic phlebotomies. The average volume of whole blood drawn in a therapeutic phlebotomy...
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    sedimentation rate (ESR or sed rate) is the rate at which red blood cells in anticoagulated whole blood descend in a standardized tube over a period of one hour...
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    Blood alcohol content (BAC), also called blood alcohol concentration or blood alcohol level, is a measurement of alcohol intoxication used for legal or...
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  • The whole blood clotting test is a blood test used to check the coagulation mechanism in the blood following a snake bite. If the test is positive after...
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    Packed red blood cells are produced from whole blood or by apheresis. They typically last for 3 to 6 weeks. The widespread use of packed red blood cells began...
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  • water. In Europe, the whole urea molecule is assayed, whereas in the United States only the nitrogen component of urea (the blood or serum urea nitrogen...
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    Plateletpheresis (category Blood donation)
    The platelets can also be separated from donations of whole blood collected in a traditional blood donation, but there are several advantages to separating...
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  • the possible blood products that are available as they may choose to accept some and not others (i.e., while not accepting whole blood nor any of the...
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  • A blood product is any therapeutic substance prepared from human blood. This includes whole blood; blood components; and plasma derivatives. Blood components...
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    Fresh frozen plasma (category Blood products)
    plasma (FFP) is a blood product made from the liquid portion of whole blood. It is used to treat conditions in which there are low blood clotting factors...
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  • solutions)—will raise the blood pressure without any direct vasopressor activity. Packed red blood cells, plasma or whole blood should not be used solely...
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    practice of paying donors for whole blood in the United States had effectively ceased. The UK did not import whole blood from abroad, but it did import...
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