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2 unusual facts about Transfusion


Medical Australia Limited

It supplies over 140 products to public and private hospitals and critical care services worldwide, including: Burettes Sets, Extension Sets, Intravenous Sets, Irrigation Sets, Transfusion Sets and TUTA Hand Pump Sets.

Transfusion

Blood transfusion, the introduction of blood directly into an individual’s blood circulation through a vein


Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue

In Italy, there were few hospitals that could provide blood transfusions, and those that did held lists of suppliers; this closed market allowed a high price (up to several months' wages) to be charged to patients for a single unit of blood.

Automaton Transfusion

Automaton Transfusion is an independent horror film written and directed by Steven C. Miller.

Carlo Santuccione

Doping products such as Testosterone anabolic steroids, EPO, Aranesp (Darbepoetin alfa) and blood transfusion equipment (Blood doping) were found and investigations were opened against 138 athletes (15 of whom were professional cyclists).

Chris Kachulis

One of their most memorable events is a night of performance curated by Frank Haines titled Blood Transfusion for a Ghost at MoMA PS1 in conjunction with the Kenneth Anger exhibition.

Chromatography in blood processing

The Institute of Transfusion Medicine in Skopje, Macedonia is a plasma fractionation center in the Balkans.

Edward Both

With his brother he continued to work in medical equipment, developing a humidicrib, a new concept in design for blood transfusion equipment, and an electro-encephalograph.

Greg Fahy

He was also Head of the Tissue Cryopreservation Section of the Transfusion and Cryopreservation Research Program of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he spearheaded the original concept of ice blocking agents.

HM Prison Rye Hill

At the time of his escape, the prisoner had been at University Hospital Coventry receiving a blood transfusion.

Hussaini Blood Bank

Its providing Safe Blood and Blood Components, treatment to Thalassaemia and Haemophilia Patients, Education of Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine and Diagnostic Services.

Jean-Baptiste Denys

Denys' third patient to undergo a blood transfusion was Swedish Baron Gustaf Bonde.

Kevin Peter Hall

While working on the TV series Harry and the Hendersons, Hall announced that he had contracted HIV from a contaminated blood transfusion.

Michael Noonan

The department was embroiled in a scandal at the time regarding blood products contaminated with Hepatitis C virus, caused by the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Service Board.

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

The business has two major segments: Transfusion Medicine which is involved in screening human blood, and Clinical Laboratories, which does a variety of chemical and immunodiagnostic testing.

Platelet

In addition to platelet transfusion, hematopoetic agents such as Oprelvekin, Romiplostim, and Eltrombopag can be used to increase platelet counts.

St Tudy

Notable people from St Tudy include: William Bligh, naval officer; Eddie George, former governor of the Bank of England; Oscar Kempthorne, statistician and geneticist at Iowa State University; and Richard Lower, early experimenter in blood transfusion.

Wolf Blood

His loss of blood is so great that he needs a transfusion, but no human will volunteer, so the surgeon uses a wolf as a source of the blood.


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