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2. The U.S. is facing a national blood shortage. Why donating is ...

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   “Donating blood helps save the lives of patients in need of medical care, but there are also benefits to the donor,” the Red Cross says. Here are some surprising ways that donating blood can ...

3. Blood donation - Wikipedia

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   Blood donation campaigns are events that allow people to donate blood at schools, churches, and other community locations. A blood drive or a blood donor session is an event in which donors come to donate allogeneic blood. These can occur at a blood bank, but they are often set up at a location in the community, such as a shopping center ...

4. Blood plasma - Wikipedia

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   A unit of donated fresh plasma. Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but which contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. [1] It is the intravascular part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside ...

5. Donating blood saves lives - where you can give - AOL

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   Donating blood is harmless and simple, and is an easy way to give back to others in need. Christina Vanderpool On average, is takes 45 seconds for the blood to circulate through the body from the ...

6. What’s the difference between donating blood or plasma? Know ...

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   Understand the different processes before you decide to give.

7. Transfusion medicine - Wikipedia

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   The blood donor center is the facility that collects blood components from screened blood donors, either whole blood or separate components such as plasma or platelets only via apheresis. These blood components are then transported to a central location for processing such as fractionation, testing and redistribution.