Essential parameters during blood donation

Red blood cells storage lesion: the effect of blood donation time on biochemical parameters

Abstract Background and Objectives There is a circadian rhythm and diurnal variation in the redox capacity in blood plasma and there is a decrease in antioxidant capacity (TAC) during the RBCs storage in blood banking. So it is possible that donated blood, based on donation time, has a different antioxidant capacity and as a result a different biochemical response during storage. This study at...

Blood Donation

Blood Donation: Survey Results

A survey of 1735 blood centers (131) and hospitals (1604) in the US showed that blood collection rate per thousand US population of donor age between 18 and 65 years decreased from 85.6 (total number of collections, 13.890) in 2004 compared to 88.0 (total number of collections, 14.259) in 2001 (2.7 % decrease). As blood utilization increases with the advent of more complex therapeutic intervent...

BLood donaTion and coLLecTion

The first documented transfusion of blood in humans occurred in 1667, but it was not until almost 300 years later that transfusion become a therapeutic practicality.1 Landsteiner’s landmark discovery in the early 1900s of blood groups and agglutinating antibodies was the key that unlocked this therapeutic pathway. The development of anticoagulants, blood preservatives, and sterile collection se...

Blood donation and beyond.

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on 14 June every year.1 On that day, countries all around the world express their appreciation for blood donors, whose generous gift of blood have saved the lives of millions of people they have never met. It is a precious gift indeed as the donated red blood cells help to carry suffi cient oxygen to critical tissues during anaemia or blood loss while the der...