Aswathy Vijayan's presentation discusses blood donation. It notes that blood donation involves voluntarily having blood drawn to be used for transfusions or to make medications. It highlights how often blood transfusions are needed and that donated blood can help up to four people. The presentation provides tips for donating blood safely and lists conditions that would prevent someone from donating blood. It also outlines important tests done on donated blood and closes by noting blood donation is not dangerous but donors should rest afterwards.
4. A blood donation occurs when a
person voluntarily has blood drawn
and used for transfusions and/or
made into biopharmaceutical
medications by a process called
fractionation (separation of whole-blood
components).
5. • Every three minutes there is
someone around the world needs
blood transfusion.
• One of ten patients in the hospital
needs blood transfusion.
• Your blood can save four people if its
fractionated.
6.
7. Before to go to donate:
• Get enough sleep at the night of the
donation.
• Eat a balanced meal. Before
donating about two hours.
• You must drink fluids (caffeine-free) a
little more than usual.
8. Donated blood is tested by many methods,
but the core tests recommended by the World
Health Organization are these four:
• Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
• Antibody to Hepatitis C
• Antibody to HIV, usually subtypes 1 and 2
• Serologic test for Syphilis
9. • Donate blood during the past
three months
• All types of anemia other than
iron deficiency anemia.
• Heart disease and rheumatic
fever.
• Chronic respiratory diseases.
• Chronic hypertension.
• Viral hepatitis.
• Diabetes mellitus.
• Cases of enlarged liver.
• Cases of kidney failure.
• Convulsions cases epilepsy
and frequent fainting.
• Increase or decrease the
thyroid gland secretions.
• Pregnancy.
• Bleeding disease.
• Genetic diseases.
• Mental illness.
• Any surgical operations during
the three-month period.
• Unexpected loss of weight
and loss of appetite.
• Night sweating. Night
fever.
10. • All injured in accidents
• Cases of bleeding before and after birth.
• Large operations.
• Premature infants
• Newborn to the different Rhesus factor the
parents.
• Thalassemia sickle cell anemia or leukemia
patients.
• Tumor patients, nuclear medicine and
bloody vomiting, patients with liver and
kidney dialysis, burns and endemic
diseases.
11. Blood donation is not a dangerous
process; the donor may need to drink
more liquids in the next hours after
donation. Smoking and drinking alcohol
is forbidden in the next 2 hours after
donation. The donor will need to take
enough time of rest.
