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NHSBT Blood Donation was previously known as the National Blood Service until it merged with UK Transplant in 2005 to form a NHS special health authority. Other official blood services in the United Kingdom include the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Welsh Blood Service.
Hemotherapy (/ h iː m ə ˈ θ ɛr ə p i / HEE-mə-THERR-ə-pee) or hemotherapeutics (/ h iː m ə θ ɛr ə ˈ p juː t ɪ k s / HEE-mə-THERR-ə-PEW-tiks) is the treatment of disease by the use of blood or blood products from blood donation (by others or for oneself). [1] It includes various types, such as: [citation needed] Blood ...
Other parts of the United Kingdom are served by the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, and the Welsh Blood Service. Blood Donation is part of NHS Blood and Transplant , which was established as a special health authority in October 2005 and also has responsibility for NHSBT Organ ...
NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive special health authority of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care.It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant (now renamed Organ Donation and Transplantation), founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, [2] and the National Blood Service [3] (now renamed Blood Donation).
A relationship between intra-operative blood transfusion and cancer recurrence has been observed in colorectal cancer. [64] In lung cancer intra-operative blood transfusion has been associated with earlier recurrence of cancer, worse survival rates and poorer outcomes after lung resection.
ABO blood group system; Acute hemolytic transfusion reaction; Allergic transfusion reaction; American Society for Apheresis; Anemia; Anemia in pregnancy; Antibody elution; Antifibrinolytic; Antihemorrhagic; Apheresis; Aquaporin-3; Auberger's blood group; Augustine blood group system; Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Autologous blood therapy ...
Developing and implementing blood management/transfusion related education sessions/programs is an important aspect of the TP role. Education can be targeted for the appropriate clinical groups (nursing, medical and allied health professionals) highlighting and promoting evidence-based practice change or national and international recommendations.
An exchange transfusion is a blood transfusion in which the patient's blood or components of it are exchanged with (replaced by) other blood or blood products. [1] The patient's blood is removed and replaced by donated blood or blood components. This exchange transfusion can be performed manually or using a machine . [2]