blood :the living fluid

1. BLOOD :
THE LIVING FLUID
FUN , FACTS AND MUCH MORE …..

2. A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLOOD

4. PIONEERS AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTIONS
• Jean-Baptiste Denis
He performed the first-ever
blood transfusion to a
person.
• Bruce Evatt
He identified AIDS as a
blood-borne disease
affecting persons with
hemophilia and blood-transfusion
recipients

5. • Edwin Cohn
He developed new techniques
for fractionating blood plasma,
for preserving red cells for
transfusion, and for studying
other constituents of blood.

6. • Robert Gallo
Many credit him as the co-discoverer
of HIV
• Richard Lewisohn
A surgeon, he introduced the
modern technique of blood
transfusion
• Reuben Ottenberg
He wrote the first report of the
clinical use of compatibility
testing of blood.

7. Superman of Science

8. DR. KARL LANDSTEINER
• The Father Of Transfusion Medicine
• After working hard for almost one year testing
several blood samples, Karl Landsteiner announced
in 1901 that there were three major human blood
groups: A, B and C (which was later called O). One
year later in 1902, Landsteiner’s three fellow
scientists discovered a fourth blood type named AB.
• Superman of Science Makes Landmark Discovery -
Over 1 Billion Lives Saved So Far!

9. FUN FACTS ABOUT BLOOD
AND DONATION

19. James Harrison
• James Harrison also known as the Man with the
golden arm, is a blood
plasma donor from Australia whose unusual
plasma composition has been used to make a
treatment for Rhesus disease.
• It was discovered that his blood contained an
unusually strong and persistent antibody called Rho
(D) Immune Globulin. Rho(D) IG is given to Rh(D) negative
mothers of unknown or Rh(D) positive babies
during and after pregnancy to prevent the creation
of antibodies to the blood of a Rh(D) positive child.

21. • The human body manufactures 17 million red
blood cells per second. If stress precipitates a
need the body can produce up to 7 times that
amount. (That’s up to 119 million red blood cells
per second.)
• The most common blood type in the United
States is O Positive (39% of the population),
while the least common blood type is AB
negative with only (0.5% of the population).

25. FACTS ABOUT BLOOD
DONATION
• There are four types of transfuseable products that can
be derived from blood: red cells, platelets, plasma and
cryoprecipitate. Typically, two or three of these are
produced from a pint of donated whole blood – hence
each donation can help save up to three lives
• Donors can give either whole blood or specific blood
components only. The process of donating specific
blood components – red cells, plasma or platelets – is
called apheresis.

26. • Most donated red blood cells must be used within
42 days of collection.
• Donated platelets must be used within five days
of collection – new donations are constantly
needed.
• Plasma and cryoprecipitate are stored in frozen
state and can be used for up to one year after
collection.

27. • Only 7 percent of people in the U.S. have O-negative blood
type. O-negative blood type donors are universal donors as
their blood can be given to people of all blood types.
• Type O-negative blood is needed in emergencies before the
patient's blood type is known and with newborns who need
blood.
• Only 3 percent of people in the U.S. have AB-positive blood
type. AB-positive type blood donors are universal donors of
plasma, which is often used in emergencies, for newborns and
for patients requiring massive transfusions

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