The Transfusion News email came this morning.
You can see it by
clicking here. As always there are quite a few bits of interest. This article
about blood
use after mass shootings in the USA caught my eye.
“Retrospective
data collected after the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, which
killed 58 and injured more than 600, indicated that the available blood supply
was adequate for the wounded patients…. Calls for donations from well-meaning
agencies led to 791 blood donations immediately following the shooting of which
137 (17.3%) were wasted”.
I’ve never had to deal with such a problem.
Periodically I work at the blood bank in a local trauma centre. I worry. On the
one hand what is going to happen; have I enough blood to hand. On the other
hand what is our wastage like?
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