Blood donation

About Donation”). Each year, 500,000 people in the United States are saved through organ donation. However, the waiting list for transplantation is also increasing with time. According to the U.S Department of Health & Human Services, an average of 21 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant. Therefore, one challenge in organ transplantation, which has remained for a long time, is to overcome the shortage of suitable organ donors. In the article “Organ Donation” in…

The farmer drained people’s blood and sell them to local blood banks, hospitals, and individual doctors. Papu Yadhav held people captive for years in a shack in between his concrete house and a cowshed. 17 men were held captured from 2 to 3 years in the hands of the dairy farmer. A healthy adult has between 14 and 18 grams of hemoglobin for every 100 milliliters of blood. The men that were captured only averaged to be 4 grams of hemoglobin. A source…

As of August 2017, more than 116,000 of men, women, and children are on the national transplant waiting list and at least twenty people die waiting for a transplant. Organ donation is a process of surgically removing an organ or tissue from one person (the organ donor) and placing it into another person (the organ recipient). Transplantation is necessary because the organ recipient’s organ(s) have either failed or been damaged by a fatal disease or injury. Information gathered from a…

causes severe liver damage. In 2014, the twins’ condition worsened, causing them to land a spot on the waiting list for organs. Nevertheless, the father, Michael Wagner, discovered he was a donor match, but he would only be able to provide his liver donation to one of his two children. This is due to the fact that liver tissue regenerates slowly, causing him to only be able to give just enough liver tissue to save one of his daughters. This means the doctor who is treating Binh and Phuoc will…

In the medical environment, blood transfusions are a common method of providing patients with the necessary fluid components to maintain vital bodily functions. Blood can be harvested and donated from other individuals, or can be taken from the patient and preserved for autologous use. Whichever the case, this procedure has saved countless lives on end and remains a crucial part of nursing. It is imperative that such a useful procedure be taken seriously in the workplace since there remains a…

Blood transfusions are used to save our lives and there are many errors that can occur and potentially harm people’s lives. The most common blood transfusion error has to do with negligence of the nurses themselves. These mistakes could include blood samples that are being mislabeled for another patient, blood being ordered for wrong patient, and wrong samples taken from the wrong patient (Lippi & Plebani, 2011). The errors that occur in the health field can lead back to the wrong process in…

quickly advanced alongside each other. Because medicine was simplified to be handled easily on the battlefield, soldiers’ lives were quickly saved. Not all medicines were invented like Sulfa powder of Atabrine, easy to use. morphine, penicillin and blood plasma were other life saving medical contributions to World War II. The painkiller, morphine was used by medics and could be…

a national transplant waiting list every 10 minutes (US “At a Glance”). Recently, patients have been clocked down to the second of being admitted to waiting lists to insure fairness for the donations. In order for a patient to receive the specific organ that he or she needs, the patient must have the same blood type, organ size, and a degree of genetic match between immune-systems with the donor (United States para. 7). The geographical distance between the donor and patient, rank of the…

Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood. More than 38,000 blood donations are needed everyday. The American Red Cross has been around since 1881 when Clara Barton founded it. Clara began to bring supplies to the battle field to help the soldiers. She saw there was a need to help soldiers, and since then the Red Cross has been helping people everyday. The founding of the American Red Cross has helped by helping with blood supply, disasters, and our country with health and safety.…

nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare personnel come into contact with blood on a daily basis. Although blood flows through every human body, harmful bacteria can lace itself into the blood stream and spread from person to person. Controlling these pathogens from spreading could save a life. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) defines bloodborne pathogens as “infectious microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans.” Diseases included are hepatitis B,…