Apheresis Essays

Title : Blood Donation Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Visual Aid : Power point slides General Purpose : To persuade Specific Purpose : To persuade my audience to donate blood to those in need of blood. Central Idea : The more people are educated about donating blood, the more people will donate, at the same time blood donation provides numerous benefits to the donor and protect the donor’s health. Introduction I. Certain disease need blood transfusion

laboratory is to make the platelet available to patients by two different method as this topic will cover it ,one called apheresis (plateletpheresis) and the other is isolation of the platelet from a unit of donated blood , both platelet apheresis and WBD platelets are considered platelet product . Methods and materials Plateletpheresis (single donor) : Apheresis is a Greek word mean (to carry away ) plateletpheresis

1. The first kidney transplantations are done without anti-rejection drugs. Kidneys from sheep, pigs, goats and primates are used. 2. Deciding about organ and tissue donation usually comes after a sudden and unexpected death, an emotionally traumatizing time. Trying to comprehend the organ/tissue procurement process at that time can be very difficult due to the overwhelming emotions that occur. This can lead to confusion, or even suspicion, which may be why some families decline to donate the organs/tissues

Buerger 's disease is are rare disease also known as thromboangiitis obliterans. This rare disease causes acute inflammation and thrombosis in the arteries and veins found on the body 's upper and lower extremities. Buerger 's disease causes clotting in the vessels; the obstruction of the vessels affects the tissues of the body by limiting the blood distribution. Due to the lack of blood, the body experiences pain and loss of tissue which leads to skin ulcerations. If the disease is extremely advanced

The findings that I will be discussing are that of A. Afarensis. The findings include a complete fossilized skull, pelvis and partial foot and shin. The original findings of A. Afarensis were consistent of a 40% complete skeleton given the name Lucy was found in Ethiopia in 1974 by Don Johnson of the institute of human origins . The fossil contained a small skull with a cranial capacity ranging from 425cm3 to 500cm3, various teeth, and other various fragments estimated around 3.7MYA. The individual

This process dilutes your own blood so you lose less concentrated blood during surgery. The disadvantage of this process is that only a limited amount of blood can be removed, and certain medical conditions may prevent the use of this technique. Apheresis: donating your own platelets and plasma. Before surgery, your platelets and plasma, which help stop bleeding, and withdrawn, filtered and returned to you when you need it later. This process may eliminate the need for the donor platelets and plasma

Myeloproliferative Neoplasms “Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) are group of diseases that cause the bone marrow to create too many red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets.” Normally, the bone marrow would make immature blood cells, or blood stem cells, that would develop into a myeloid or lymphoid stem cell. The lymphoid cell would develop into a white blood cell, and the myeloid cell would develop into either a red blood cell, platelet, or a white blood cell. The white blood cells fight