AS an essential therapeutic agent in modern medical practice, human blood is clearly a valuable and limited natural resource. The total use of blood grows annually, as does the difficulty of ...

“We’re going to be carrying two units of packed red blood cells and two units of plasma,” said paramedic Alec Nichols. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Four days ...

This study was performed at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, where we transfuse approximately 32,309 packed red blood cells (RBCs), 87,760 random-donor platelets 4878 ...

Look at a beaker of blood, for example, and you’ll find that the red blood cells are packed tight. If you used their density to estimate the cells in a human body, you’d come to a staggering ...

“We’re going to be carrying two units of packed red blood cells and two units of plasma,” said paramedic Alec Nichols. Four days after Cobb County Fire and Emergency crews unveiled how they ...