written by ; ckmadrigal
Donating Blood
Introduction:
Most of the time, daily pressures and responsibilities force us to overlook how important life is. We rarely take the
…show more content…
II. The facts about blood and donating blood.
A. One pint is separated into components.
1. Red cells, plasma, and platelets.
2. Blood transports oxygen and fights infection.
3. Provides clotting and elimates waste.
B. Blood is screened and tested.
1. Every unit is tested for disease and to determine the blood type.
2. The four different types of blood are (A, B, AB, and O).
3. Type O negative is called the universal donor.
4. Type O positive is the most common blood type.
C. Some facts about the need for blood
1. Every two seconds someone in U.S needs blood.
2. One out of ten people who go to hospital need blood
3. Sickle cell disease affects more than 80,000 and can require frequent blood transfusion.
4. Cancer patients need blood sometimes daily during Chemotherapy treatments.
5. An average adult’s body contains about 10 to 12 pints of blood.
III. Giving blood saves lives.
A. Giving blood is simple and safe.
1. A sterile needed is used once then it discarded.
2. The body quickly replaces the blood donated.
3. Blood donors can give every
Today we are in great need of a solution to solve the problem of the shortage of human organs available for transplant. The website for Donate Life America estimates that in the United States over 100 people per day are added to the current list of over 100,000 men, women, and children that are waiting for life-saving transplants. Sadly enough, approximately 18 people a day on that list die just because they cannot outlive the wait for the organ that they so desperately need to survive. James Burdick, director of the Division of Transplantation for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services confirms, “The need for organ transplants continues to grow and this demand continues to outpace the supply of transplantable organs”. The
According to United Network for Organ Sharing (2010) organ donations and transplantation are the removal of organs and tissues from one person and placed into another person’s body. The need for organ transplantation usually occurs when the recipient organ has failed (UNOS, 2010). Organ donation can save the lives of many individuals who are on the waiting list for an organ donation. Becoming an organ donor can be a difficult decision. Many people have the false beliefs about being an organ donor. An example would be if organ donor is on their driver’s license and a person is in a life-threatening accident everything will not be done to save their life. There is an increase need for organ donors and unfortunately the need for organ
Life is all about what you make it. More so now than ever, lives are taken so much for granted and the small things are so overlooked. Many lives are lived by the wrong priorities, in my opinion. Every day is up for grabs and every moment matters.
Some people strongly believe that donating blood is bad, but what people don’t know is that it actually has surprisingly good benefits like reducing the risk of cancer, burning calories, and even saving someone’s life, so everyone who has the opportunity to give should.
important to us, or us missing out on life’s little moments, we must all make sacrifices in order to
Everyday, twenty-two people die waiting for an organ transplant. Patients on the donor list are in need of an organ and are depending on it for survival. Some patients are on the list for weeks, months, even years with sno match. Comparatively, 6,316 people die every hour with viable organs that can be used. Doctors are not legally allowed to use these organs unless given consent by only the patient before death. If all U.S. citizens donated their organs, transplantations could occur and save thousands of lives each year. Organ donation should be required in the United States because of the significant number of lives that could be saved everyday.
Both texts provide great points and clearly send the message: guns should not be allowed for the public. However, Blood Drive is more persuasive due to the text being in a story format compared to a factual format. The Myth of The Good Guy with a Gun provides factual, quantitative values that represent the dangers of guns such as, “every 1 percent increase in gun ownership, there was a 1.1 percent increase in the firearm homicide rate and a 0.7 percent increase in the total homicide rate.” The quantitative values help readers understand the exact degree of which guns are dangerous, but fail in connecting readers on an emotional level. Blood Drive, however, portrays the message more effectively by using the inverse extreme, instead of blatantly arguing against guns
The Blood Drive is a satirical story addressing the dangers of laissez faire gun laws and treating children as having the same capacities as adults. When you give a child a gun you’re saying you recognize them as having the same capacity for reasoning as adults. When you remove the responsibility from adults you allow them to regress to childish behavior. Blood Drive shows that a society that lacks discipline and order is doomed to chaos and tragedy.
An unusual court case involving a Witness and a blood transfusion occurred in Pomona, CA. Keith Cook, a drunken driver, had rammed his pickup truck into a stationary car, pushing it into a 55 year old woman, Jadine Russell. she was standing by the side of the road. She was a Jehovah's Witness, refused a blood transfusion, and died in hospital. Cook was found not guilty on his original murder charge, but was convicted of manslaughter. Prosecutors said Cook was responsible for the death because he caused the injuries. His lawyers argued that the immediate cause of Russell's death was her refusal of a blood transfusion. 18
“There is a need to instil in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor.” Pope John Paul II stated in the Address to International Congress on Transplants. In a culture of death and self-centeredness it is important to prompt the youth to consider becoming an organ donor. The number of people in need of a transplant is growing quickly, and already is at a large rate. Eighteen people will die each day waiting for an organ transplant; more must be done to help these people, yet it must be within the standards of medical ethics.
The top five painful medical treatments in the middle ages was said to have been eye surgery, metallic catheter, bloodletting, Saint Fiacres illness, and trepanning. In the above we've talked about Saint Fiacres illness and we looked a little bit into the eye surgery. So we are going to jump right into talking about metallic catheter and bloodletting. Catheters where used to relive painful urinary infections and diseases. Since there wasn't any antibiotics and there was a huge amount of venereal viruses. Tons of people where have said to suffer from woes of blocked bladders. The medieval metallic catheter is made up of a metal tube that the doctor shoved up the urethra and then into the bladder. Another common one was kidney stones. To treat the kidney stones the
In a world where life expectancy has increased tremendously over the last century because of new technology and medical procedures, we find humanity ever pushing the boundaries on what it can do to prevent loss of life where possible. One example is the area of organ donation and transplantation. However, unlike many other technologies or procedures which can be built, manufactured, or learned, organ transplantation requires one thing that we can’t create yet: an organ itself. Because our increased life span causes more people to require a replacement organ when theirs starts to fail, the demand has far outrun the supply and the future only looks to get worse. “Between the years 1988 and 2006 the number of transplants doubled, but the
The reason today, to be an organ donor is to help ones in need that are struggling to continue to live off of the organs they have. Religions and society has declared organ donations to be a final act of love and generosity to others. Frankenstein, on the other hand, wasn’t trying to help someone who was already naturally created and living, he went out of his way to make a scientific discovery. In other words to some people, Victor was trying to play god, which wasn’t very liked by many. By scientific reasoning, today we know the output of these transplants would only increase the life of the human we already know of. Statics show that one organ can save eight lives. These are eight lives that are living and accepted into the world by god.
Organ donation is a sacrifice that can touch many people through one person’s unselfish gift. Granted that gift most often comes after a tragic loss of a loved one. As the bearer of three functioning kidneys, I have always considered organ donation to be the expected norm. But today, the focus will be to enlighten you on the reasons to consider organ donation. Organ donations are needed for every age group, race, and ethnic groups. Each person should take the opportunity to extend the gift of life to another individual through organ donation.
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) has identified a long-standing issue of poor repeat blood donation from young donors, in particular males. While this group of the population has a high number of new donors, it has been found they are also the least loyal, which poses a problem for both current and future blood stocks. As a marketing consultancy firm, we have been commissioned to analyse the issues surrounding blood donation in Australia, and to devise three cost-effective marketing strategies aimed at increasing repeat donation from this demographic.