Come join us in helping save lives! Blood Drive at City Hall in the Board Room, Friday, August 25, 9AM to 2PM.
Come join us in helping save lives! Blood Drive at City Hall in the Board Room, Friday, August 25, 9AM to 2PM.
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- Someone needs blood every two seconds.
- Only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood - less than 10 percent do annually.**
- About one in seven people entering a hospital need blood.
- One pint of blood can save up to three lives.
- One unit of blood can be separated into several components: red blood cells, plasma, platelets and cryoprecipitate.
- Platelets promote blood clotting and give those with leukemia and other cancers a chance to live.
- Forty-two days: how long most donated red blood cells can be stored.
- Five days: how long most donated platelets can be stored.
- One year: how long frozen plasma can be stored.
- Three pints: the average whole blood and red blood cell transfusion.*
- Children being treated for cancer, premature infants and children having heart surgery need blood and platelets from donors of all types, especially type O.
- Thirteen tests (11 for infectious diseases) are performed on each unit of donated blood.
- The rarest blood type is the one not on the shelf when it's needed by a patient.
- Four easy steps to donate blood: medical history, quick physical, donation and snacks.
- The actual blood donation usually takes about 10 minutes. The entire process - from the time you sign in to the time you leave - takes about an hour.
- After donating blood, you replace the fluid in hours and the red blood cells within four weeks. It takes eight weeks to restore the iron lost after donating.
- One unit of whole blood is roughly the equivalent of one pint.
- Blood donation. It's about an hour of your time. It's About Life.