Carter BloodCare has 56 Facts about Blood.
Here are a couple to just name a few:
About 1 in 7 hospital patients needs blood.
Three lives are saved by one pint of donated blood.
10 - 12 pints: amount of blood in the human body.
People donate blood out of a sense of duty and community spirit, not to make money. They are not paid for their donation.
Much of today's medical care depends on a steady supply of blood from healthy donors.
One unit of blood can be separated into red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate.
Red blood cells carry oxygen to the body's organs and tissue.
There are one billion red blood cells in two to three drops of blood.
Red blood cells live about 120 days in the circulatory system.
Platelets support blood clotting and give those with leukemia and other cancers a chance to live.
Apheresis (ay-fur-ee-sis) is a special kind of blood donation that
allows a donor to give speci c blood components, such as platelets.
The shelf life of donated red blood cells is 42 days.
The shelf life of donated platelets is ve days.
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