The Safety Of Blood
A five-year old girl is riding down the street, on her way to her best
friend's house. She doesn't have a care in the world and is quietly humming to
herself. Suddenly a car whips around the corner and swerves to avoid the child,
but he looses control and squarely hits the girl, causing the her to fall and
get trapped between the car and her battered bicycle. A main artery in her leg
has been severed and blood fills the gutter of the street. As she gets rushed
to the hospital in the ambulance, a pint of blood is given to her to attempt to
replace some of the life giving fluid that is pouring out of her leg. In the
end she received four pints of blood and made a full recovery.
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the blood that they receive may have
harmful or deadly diseases and that today's blood supply is not "safe."
However, "safe" means different things for different people. For some,
safe is an absolute security from any danger. This is an extreme viewpoint,
though, because most people realize that one can never be completely safe.
Another, and more popularly held connotation of "safe," is the probability of
not getting hurt. This is a much more reasonable and plausible definition and
therefor will be used throughout this paper. However, even though the
overwhelming probability is that nothing will go wrong, people still fear that
the nation's blood supply is unsafe. They are incorrect in this belief, though,
because much is done to assure that the nation's blood supply is, in fact, safe.
One requirement to having a safe blood supply is to have an extensive
reserve, because this allows for the option of discarding any blood that is
potentially unsafe. The ...
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thorough survey asking
about his past and potentially risky behavior. The survey asks about recent
sexual encounters, focusing on homosexual situations. It also asks about drug
use, body piercing, and prostitution, which are all considered to be "at risk
behaviors." If the donor has participated in such behavior he will not be
allowed to donate until a time when it is safer for everyone involved. If the
donor passes the screening, his blood is collected in a new, plastic bag with a
brand new needle. The needle and everything used during the process, from the
finger lancet to the cotton swabs, are disposed of instead of being reused,
which eliminates the possibility of something not ...
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