Age of blood

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Ron

Nobody - just be nice to your blood bank services. We can get up to 6
whole blood per acute patient here in South Africa. After that we go to
component.

All our blood is "fresh" - with out trauma loads nothing lasts past 5-7
days in storage!

Tim
Dr T C Hardcastle
M.B., Ch.B. (Stell); M. Med. (Chir) (Stell); FCS (SA)
Principal Specialist Trauma Surgeon /
Honorary Lecturer University of KwaZulu-Natal Dept Surgery
Deputy Director - IALCH Trauma Service
Durban - South Africa

> Whole blood???  Who'd you have to kill to get that???   :-)
>
> Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
> [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Ian Civil
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:00 AM
> To: Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]
> Cc: KGunn at adhb.govt.nz
> Subject: Re: Age of blood
>
> Dear Zsolt,
>  
> I think our MTP box 1 has 2 units of "fresh" whole blood but I will copy
> Kerry Gunn into this e-mail and he can correct me if I am wrong.
>  
> Ian
>

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