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Blood banks in Pakistan by ali zaib
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Blood banks in Pakistan by ALI ZAIB
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| Article Posted: 08/30/2013 |
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Blood donation is a process in which people donate there blood to others having same blood group.It is a common practice through out the globe and by this practice thousands of lives are saved every year. Because its a matter of emergency in most of the cases so there is a phenomenon of blood bank systems to make it possible that blood may be gained on fast and secured basis . people donate blood to the blood bank which is than tested and saved in a medical way for use in an emergency.Routine blood storage is 42 days or 6 weeks for stored packed red blood cells (also called "StRBC" or "pRBC"), by far the most commonly transfused blood product, and involves refrigeration but usually not freezing. There has been increasing controversy about whether a given product unit's age is a factor in transfusion efficacy, specifically on whether "older" blood directly or indirectly increases risks of complications.Studies have not been consistent on answering this question, with some showing that older blood is indeed less effective but with others showing no such difference; nevertheless, as storage time remains the only available way to estimate quality status or loss, a first-in-first-out inventory management approach is standard presently. It is also important to consider that there is large variability in storage results for different donors, which combined with limited available quality testing, poses challenges to clinicians and regulators seeking reliable indicators of quality for blood products and storage systems. Transfusions of platelets are comparatively far less numerous, but they present unique storage/management issues. Platelets may only be stored for 7 days,due largely to their greater potential for contamination, which is in turn due largely to a higher storage temperature.Platelet storage lesion is a very different phenomenon from RBC storage lesion, due largely to the different functions of the products and purposes of the respective transfusions, along with different processing issues and inventory management considerationsThe term “cord blood” is used for the blood remaining in the umbilical cord and the placenta after the birth of a baby. Cord Blood contains stem cells that can grow into blood and immune system cells, as well as other types of cells. Today cord blood is often used as a substitute for bone marrow in stem cell transplants. Over 80 diseases are treated this way, including cancers, blood disorders, genetic and metabolic diseases. Cord blood donation costs the parents nothing, but can give birth to hope for a patient in need. The parents sign an informed consent which gives a "public" cord blood bank permission to list their child's blood on a database that can be searched to find a match for a transplant patient. The cord blood is listed purely by its tissue type, with no information about the identity of the donor. In the United States, be the match maintains a national network of public cord blood banks and registered donations. However, all the donation networks around the world cooperate with each other, so that a patient who one day benefits from your child's cord blood may come from anywhere. It is truly a gift to the benefit of humankind.
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