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What is Blood?
Blood is made up of three main components: Red Cells, Plasma and Platelets
Shelf Life of each component:
Red Cells – 42 days
Platelets – 5 days
Plasma – 1 year

White cells are the body's primary defense against infection.
Granulocytes, a type of white blood cell, roll along blood vessel walls in search of bacteria to eat.
Typing the "Gift of Life"

There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O.
Type O+ blood is the most common, most frequently used blood type.
Type O- is the universal donor since most people can accept this type of blood regardless of their blood type.
Type AB is the universal recipient, since people with this blood type can normally accept all blood types.
Did You Know?

60% of the population is medically eligible to give blood, yet only 5% of the national population donates blood.
If all blood donors gave 2 to 4 times a year, it would help prevent blood shortages.
4.5 million Americans would die each year without life saving blood transfusions
Every three seconds someone needs blood.
About three gallons of blood supports the entire nation's blood needs for one minute.

Knowing the Needs

Car accident victims who have suffered massive blood loss can need transfusions of 50 pints or more of red blood cells.
The average bone marrow transplant requires 120 units of platelets and about 20 units of red blood cells.
Severe burn victims can need about 20 units of platelets during their treatment.
Children being treated for cancer, premature infants and children having heart surgery need blood and platelets from donors of all types.
Anemic patients need blood transfusions to increase their iron levels.
Cancer, transplant and trauma patients, and patients undergoing open-heart surgery require platelet transfusions to survive.
Some patients with complications from severe sickle cell disease, an inherited disease that affects more than 80,000 people in the United States (98% of whom are of African descent), receive blood transfusions every month - up to 4 pints at a time.

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