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...Department of Defense and the American Red Cross were out for blood last week. Press, radio, television and posters carried repeated appeals for blood donors. The fact behind the flurry was that U.S. armed forces are running short of blood and plasma. "We have enough whole blood on hand for about one week of heavy fighting," said an Army medic in Tokyo...
...rate of 25,000 pints a week. During the summer, the rate dropped below 10,000. Two things have given the public the wrong idea that blood is no longer urgently needed: 1) the letdown in Korea during armistice talks,* and 2) the publicity given to so-called blood-plasma "substitutes." At the same time, medics in Korea have been pouring three times as much blood and plasma into the wounded as in World War II because they have found that using more of it saves more lives...
...cannot be, a substitute for whole blood, because it contains living cells. And whole blood is best for the wounded and for most victims of shock. But whole blood cannot be stored more than three weeks and cannot be given on the battlefield, so doctors use plasma (the blood fluid from which the cells have been removed) for first aid. Plasma will keep for years. As an emergency treatment for shock, doctors use plasma "extenders" such as salt solution, gelatine or Dextran. None of these contains the complex chemicals found in plasma, and none would be used if there were...
Scientists have not been able to develop a substitute for blood or blood plasma...
...during her first pregnancy had a history of easy bruising and free bleeding. Nevertheless she had a natural delivery and went home ten days later. Then the trouble began. There was profuse uterine bleeding, which could not be stopped even after she was readmitted to the hospital. Blood and plasma had to be given in large quantities. Finally the doctors decided that the only thing to do was to remove the uterus...