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South Bend Medical Foundation [34] Versiti Blood Center of Indiana [35] Iowa. ImpactLife (Formerly: Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center) [36] LifeServe Blood Center [37] Kentucky. Kentucky Blood Center [38] Western Kentucky Regional Blood Center [39] Louisiana.
Plateletpheresis (more accurately called thrombocytapheresis or thrombapheresis, though these names are rarely used) is the process of collecting thrombocytes, more commonly called platelets, a component of blood involved in blood clotting. The term specifically refers to the method of collecting the platelets, which is performed by a device ...
The theme of the 2012 World Blood Donor Day campaign, "Every blood donor is a hero" focuses on the idea that everyone can become a hero by giving blood. Based on data reported by 180 countries between 2011 and 2013, the WHO estimated that approximately 112.5 million units of blood were being collected annually. [119]
In 2013, a report from Ohio Hospital Association states that CareSource is the No. 2 health insurer in the state by premium revenue. [29] CareSource celebrated 25 years as one of the nation's largest Managed Medicaid Plans and the largest in Ohio in 2014. The company then served more than 1 million consumers in Ohio and Kentucky. [30]
The pathophysiology of hypertension is an area which attempts to explain mechanistically the causes of hypertension, which is a chronic disease characterized by elevation of blood pressure. Hypertension can be classified by cause as either essential (also known as primary or idiopathic) or secondary. About 90–95% of hypertension is essential ...
Blood transfusion is the process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously. [ 1] Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components 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 ...
Allow donor deferral information to be added, updated and deleted via a web page. Each donation center is responsible for checking the NDDR prior to donation and uploading any positive or reactive tests for each donor. An International Quality Plasma Program (IQPP) facility is a lab that has agreed to the voluntary standards program of the PPTA ...
The term human blood group systems is defined by the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) as systems in the human species where cell-surface antigens—in particular, those on blood cells—are "controlled at a single gene locus or by two or more very closely linked homologous genes with little or no observable recombination between them", [1] and include the common ABO and Rh ...