Blood is irreplaceable in medical treatment Unpaid blood donation requires your participation and support

Text/Zhang Hongbin Wu Yinan

As the source of life, blood is irreplaceable, and blood transfusion has become an important means in clinical treatment. In particular, some patients with acute and critical illness, major surgery, trauma and large blood loss must be transfused in time to save the lives of patients.

On December 26, 2021, a 9-year-old boy accidentally fell from the 7th floor, and when he was urgently transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit of Xiangtan Central Hospital, the child had already suffered hemorrhagic shock and respiratory failure due to excessive blood loss, and multiple fractures throughout his body.

"We immediately contacted the hospital blood transfusion office, the central blood station, plasma, etc., and these departments also coordinated the arrangement of plasma transportation for the first time," said Jiang Yan, deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatrics of the Central Hospital, "The child urgently injected 3.5 units of red blood cells and 900 units of plasma, as well as a large number of platelets on the first day of admission." What is this concept? It is equivalent to changing the blood of the child's whole body once. In the next 5 days of rescue, a considerable amount of blood was still injected every day. "With the protection of blood and the orderly emergency treatment, the child finally turned the corner.

In addition to the sudden need for a large amount of blood in critical cases, there are many patients in the hospital who need uninterrupted blood transfusion treatment for certain diseases. In the intensive care unit of the Department of Neurology of the Central Hospital, there are patients with brainstem encephalitis, limb numbness, and abnormal immunity. "We have treated them with plasmapheresis, which regularly replaces the original plasma in the patient's body with new plasma and other plasma substitutes, which can reduce pathological damage and remove pathogenic substances." Deng Ye, deputy director of the Department of Neurology, said, "For each replacement, this patient needs to use 2,000 milliliters of plasma, and if it is replaced three times a week, it will use 6,000 milliliters of plasma." "In addition, patients such as severe anemia also need frequent blood transfusion treatment.

"At present, the amount of blood supplied to the clinic by the department is 30-40 bags per day (each bag has 300 ml to 400 ml of blood), and about 2,000 units of red blood cells are supplied to the clinic every month, and the amount of blood used by the hospital due to various treatments is indeed very large." Cai Dan, director of the blood transfusion department of the central hospital, introduced, "If the blood inventory of the department is insufficient, we will immediately contact the Xiangtan city center blood station to replenish." "It is understood that the hospital blood transfusion department and the central blood station have a close and efficient cooperation, in the critical and critical care and other aspects, as long as the hospital needs blood, no matter the middle of the night or early morning, the blood station always delivers blood at the fastest speed, racing against time to save precious lives."

However, human blood cannot yet be artificially manufactured or replaced by other substances, but can only be obtained by donating blood from healthy, age-appropriate people. According to the relevant person in charge of the xiangtan central blood station, the annual blood collection volume of the blood station is nearly 9.8 million ml, and Xiangtan City has also won the title of "National Advanced City of Unpaid Blood Donation" for 7 consecutive years for 14 years. However, at present, due to factors such as cold weather and college students' holidays, the number of unpaid blood donors has shown a downward trend. "Unpaid blood donations require more public participation and support. Appeal to the general public to actively participate in unpaid blood donation and save the lives of others with their own love. ”

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