Why Are We Giving Our Patients Blood?The article presents a study on the importance of red blood cells transfusion to patients with acute lung injury.Luks, Andrew M.Critical Care Alert
Why do we have different blood types? Scientists estimate that blood types have been around for at least 20 million years. But doctors have only known about them for the last 116 years.Before 1900, countless people died after they were injec...
As our knowledge of the control of blood cell development grows, we're making progress towards being able toreproduce this process in cells grown in the laboratory. This is still some time away from being a broadly available process, but an exciting area to watch as it develops. Provided by...
Keywords: Hepatitis E virus, Blood donations, Blood transfusion, Safety, Blood testing Background Blood transfusion is a lifesaving procedure to replace blood cells or plasma lost through severe bleeding, e.g., during surgery when blood loss occurs. It is also used in anemic patients as an ...
Dembele was going nowhere, but Cancelo had a rush of blood and committed another expensive individual error and once Paris got in front there was no way a Barca side with 10 men was going to chase the game, especially without Yamal on the pitch. ...
The two main kinds of antigens, A and B, determine your blood type. 这两种主要的抗原A和B决定了你的血型。 But how do we get four blood types from only two antigens? 但仅从这两种抗原我们怎么得到四种血型的呢? Well, the antigens are coded for by three different alleles, varieties of a...
Have you ever wondered why some days all you want to do is snack? 不知道你有没有想过这个问题:为什么有时候你会不停地想吃东西? Under normal circumstances, we feel hungry when we have burnt up the food we have eaten as energy and our blood sugar and insulin levels begin to drop. Ghrelin...
I’ve got half an hour to make something and there’s nothing for them, there’s nothing in the fridge, so what are we going to have. So, occasionally it’s fish and chips instead or, um, yeah, just quickly putting something together which isn’t really what I’d want to do but...
I am 41 weeks and one day with my fourth and I am being scheduled for induction. I want to add that I never agreed with any of the inductions. I was more forced and pushed into them. I have healthy pregnancies and good blood pressure. The only reason they want to induce me is I...
In particular, when older patients 47___ of pain, they were told it was a natural part of aging and they would have to learn to live with it.Times have changed. Today, we take pain 48___. Indeed, pain is now considered the fifth vital sign, as important as blo...