Posted on 06/19/2021 2:45:25 PM PDT by algore
A rise in the number of trauma cases, organ transplants and elective surgeries requiring blood products over recent months have depleted the nation's blood inventory, causing the American Red Cross to appeal to Americans for immediate action.
Hospitals are responding to an atypically high number of traumas and emergency room visits.
Compared to 2019, the Red Cross has seen red cell demand from hospitals with trauma centers climb by 10% in 2021.
Between 20-40% of trauma deaths that occur after hospital admission involve massive hemorrhaging.
In such circumstances, doctors may need hundreds of blood products, depending on the severity of the trauma, to help save a life.
In addition, there is great hospital demand for blood as patients who had previously deferred care during the COVID-19 pandemic are now coming forward for treatment with even more advanced disease progression and therefore requiring increased blood transfusions.
Surgeries might require more blood than they would have if they'd taken place a year ago with patients' health having declined from having to wait so long for surgery.
Blood centers in Iowa, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Ohio are calling for donations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, gas man should be allowed to donate. But I’m sure you meant LGBT.
Never mind.
It’s the 21st Century. Why is artificial blood not yet available?
PMID: 19742251 PMCID: PMC2738310 DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.43685
Abstract
Artificial blood is a product made to act as a substitute for red blood cells.
While true blood serves many different functions, artificial blood is designed for the sole purpose of transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout the body. Depending on the type of artificial blood, it can be produced in different ways using synthetic production, chemical isolation, or recombinant biochemical technology.
Development of the first blood substitutes dates back to the early 1600s, and the search for the ideal blood substitute continues.
Various manufacturers have products in clinical trials; however, no truly safe and effective artificial blood product is currently marketed.
It is anticipated that when an artificial blood product is available, it will have annual sales of over $7.6 billion in the United States alone.
Development of the first blood substitutes dates back to the early 1600s, and the search for the ideal blood substitute continues.
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Had not heard the idea of artificial blood goes back to the 1600s. Interesting.
And yet they won’t take my uncommon blood because they insist on using a hep test with a horrible false positive rate. I was tested with a much more accurate test as part of a study and shown to have no hep exposure. Will they take my blood? Hell no, better to go out and solicit blood from gay men.
A politicized health care system isn’t good for anyone’s health.
I donated last week. The blood bank staff said they were very busy during the pandemic with donations for convalescent plasma. In recent weeks, however, blood donations have dwindled due to no bloodmobile corporate sponsors and people on the road traveling after the long pandemic shut-in period.
If an unvaccinated person gets blood donated from people who were vaccinated, does that count as a vaccination?
That could be more effective than lottery tickets or scholarships!
Me too. Germany 1981. Really annoys me.
Do they accept convalescent plasma from people who have had the shots more than 2-3 weeks prior to donating?
In America blood is fractionated. It is virtually impossible to get whole blood to administer. When I have to do a massive transfusion protocol I have to have all the products in sequence to make sure I donâÂÂt make the bleeding worse.
A donation is separated into packed red cells, fresh frozen plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate. As people were speaking about convalescent plasma it is the plasma fraction that has antibodies. So receiving PRBC platelets or crying would not have antibodies. And it is ludicrous to assume that the mRNA would be in the blood as blood is synthesized in the marrow and hemapoetic tissues and circulating blood is blood is neither undergoing mitosis or actively making proteins.
A basic understanding of biology to our friends who are worried about vaccination is an important thing.
Convalescent plasma is donated after recovery from infection, while antibody levels are high. The program was important for CoV-19 prior to availability of vaccines. Today, there is no wait period required between CoV-19 vaccination and blood donation.
Yes it is. I am CMV negative which makes my blood donation especially needed for premature babies.
I am grateful for whomever donated it and hopefully there is no HIV or Herpes in it.
All blood donations are tested for HIV along with
Hepatitis B and C
HTLV types I and II (viruses linked to a form of leukemia and inflammation of the spinal cord)
West Nile virus – transmitted through mosquito bites
Syphilis – a sexually transmitted disease
Each donor is tested one time for Chagas disease which is transmitted through a bug that is referred to as “the kissing bug.”
Herpes simplex is transmitted through direct physical contact, and not through blood transfer.
So what you are telling me is that the FB posts by my 2nd cousin’s best friends auto mechanic’s girlfriends hair dresser who has watched hours of YouTube videos as “research” should be ignored?
; )
In 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted a longstanding
ban that prevented some 4.4 million Veterans, service members and civilians
stationed in certain parts of Europe between 1980 and 1996 from donating
blood.Under the new guidelines, persons who had been ineligible because they
resided for six months or more on U.S. military bases in Germany, the
United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands between 1980 and 1990, or on
bases in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Italy between 1980 and 1996
may now be eligible.The deferral, however, is still in place for past or recent residency
or travel in some European countries. For instance, FDA guidelines do not
permit donation by individuals who have spent three months or more
cumulatively in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1996.
Thank you. I will check it out with the red cross.
Do the shots’ antibodies trash the antibodies that are present from the covid infection?
Yes!
Some "experts" think the whole natural immune system has been trashed which will lead to horrific consequences.
Fact Check- Is Red Cross accepting plasma from people vaccinated against COVID-19?
The person who infected me last year with C-19 couldn't wait to get in line to destroy her natural immunity. She really is that stupid.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/coronavirus—covid-19—and-blood-donation.html
“COVID-19 Vaccine and Convalescent Plasma Donor Eligibility Information
The Red Cross discontinued dedicated COVID-19 convalescent plasma donations on March 26 due to declining hospital demand and sufficient industry supply.
The FDA revised its convalescent plasma donor eligibility guidance on February 11 specifically to ensure that convalescent plasma donors have sufficient levels of antibodies as a result of their illness or immune response to a COVID-19 infection versus just the vaccine. The FDA allows people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine to donate dedicated COVID-19 convalescent plasma within six months of their infection of the virus.
While the Red Cross is no longer collecting dedicated convalescent plasma donations, the Red Cross tests all blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies. Plasma from routine blood and platelet donations that test positive for high-levels of antibodies, and meets other requirements, may be used as convalescent plasma to meet potential future needs of COVID-19 patients.
One of the Red Cross requirements for plasma from routine blood and platelet donations that test positive for high-levels of antibodies to be used as convalescent plasma is that it must be from a donor that has not received a COVID-19 vaccine. This is to ensure that antibodies collected from donors have sufficient antibodies directly related to their immune response to a COVID-19 infection and not just the vaccine, as antibodies from an infection and antibodies from a vaccine are not the same.”
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