Blood transfusion,

He needs a transfusion?

They are removed by the spleen, which leads to low platelet counts.

You there! Hard locked. Ready for transfusion!

l took him for a blood transfusion.

The yield is normally the equivalent of between six and ten random platelet concentrates.

The house surgeon has said he'll need blood transfusion

Dr Seward, when did Miss Weston have the last transfusion?

Two nurses came into her hospital room to prepare for a transfusion.

Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) is one of the numerous growth factors, or proteins that regulate cell growth and division.

There's one way to treat jaundice, and that's what's called an exchange transfusion.

I got a bad blood transfusion and I got a liver disease as a consequence.

Already the case has lost so much blood, nothing but a transfusion can save him.

Intensive screening of blood donors and testing of donated blood have reduced the risk of transmission through transfusion.

Safe blood substitutes and new therapeutic options that make blood transfusion more effective would significantly improve treatment in challenging situations.

Indeed, secondary transmission by blood transfusion or surgical instruments might even result in variant CJD becoming endemic in the UK population.

Citrate is in liquid form in the tube and is used for coagulation tests, as well as in blood transfusion bags.

52. Recommendations were formulated for three HIV testing strategies in respect of transfusion donation safety, surveillance and diagnosis of HIV infection.

Over time, if uncorrected, major depression can cause such conditions as progressive mineral loss from bones, accumulation of abdominal fat, increased blood platelet reactivity, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

in the case of a blood transfusion) AIHA is a relatively rare condition, affecting one to three people per 100,000 per year.

He needed blood transfusion for an urgent surgery to treat multiple fractures. Doctors soon discovered, however, that his blood group is the rare Bombay blood group.

A Libyan detainee at Guantanamo Bay could have been infected with the deadly Aids virus after a blood transfusion, says his Chicago based lawyer H Candace Gorman.

The objectives of the AIDS HIV prevention programme are to prevent HIV transmission reduce morbidity associated with HIV AIDS promote safe blood transfusion and establish adequate surveillance systems.

Reham al Hakami is a 13 year old girl who got infected with HIV after being given a blood transfusion in a hospital in Jizan, in southern Saudi Arabia.

Presently, there is a shortage of over 50 per cent of drugs necessary for primary health protection antibiotics, cardiotonics, diuretics, antihypertension preparations, medicine in ampoules, anaesthetics, blood transfusion equipment, etc.

Individuals infected with BSE who remain in an asymptomatic state during their lives could represent a risk to others of potential secondary transmission of variant CJD through blood transfusion or surgery.

The programme strategies include creating awareness among the public through information and education and ensuring safe blood transfusion. In this connection more than 5,722 spots (TV Radio) had been shown till February 2003.

Its technology related activities cover a broad variety of areas, from blood transfusion safety, blood products, laboratory service, diagnostic radiology and other medical devices, surgery, anaesthesiology, transplantation, e Health, genomics and technology assessment.

Thereís no time, you have to run, and the time you use to treat a seriously injured limb... ...may spell death for the next wounded patient in line awaiting a transfusion, or worse.

Last year Bahraini blogger Suad attended a workshop in Cairo to raise awareness about AIDS, and she later wrote the story of Aisha, a Sudanese woman who contracted the virus through a blood transfusion.

(b) A two week STC (February 1993) on clinical, laboratory and radiological technology for health systems based on primary health care performed situation analysis of blood transfusion action for improvement of related services at the national level.

The yearly turnover of the national programmes (basic education, health care and social welfare programmes, ambulance services, blood collection and transfusion, etc.) managed by these Societies is about 23 billion Swiss francs (currently equivalent to 17.2 billion).

(c) Because of the precision and longer periods of time involved in the surgical treatment of land mine wounds, a vast stock of blood containers and a blood transfusion network are necessary, another scarcity in many countries

Several products that could revolutionize transfusion medicine have already been developed in the pursuit of shelf stable, portable, one type fits all blood substitutes, which could replace standard blood transfusions in extreme situations, such as on the battlefield.

UNRWA continues to place special emphasis on ensuring the safety of blood transfusion services in hospitals of non governmental organizations in the occupied territory of the West Bank and Gaza Strip by providing them with HIV diagnostic kits.

During 1992, 10 news releases were distributed world wide on a wide range of topics including HIV and breast feeding, HIV transmission through blood transfusion, the increased rate of HIV infections and the findings of a consultation on immunosuppression.

(e) A regional adviser on health laboratory services visited Lebanon in February 1993 to assist in situation analysis of blood transfusion services and the development of a plan of action for improvement of related services at the national level

The implementation of the changes would go a long way towards eliminating many of the problems that we are discussing in this Hall and would also represent, as Mr. Eduard Shevardnadze put it so aptly, a very timely quot blood transfusion quot for the entire international system.