blood banks
Transfusion supply centers
Blood banks are facilities that collect, test, store, and distribute blood and blood products for medical use.
Hospitals maintain blood banks for transfusions during surgery and emergencies.
The term extends metaphorically to any repository of biological material: a sperm bank, a seed bank.
To bank blood is to store it for future use.
- lifesavingPreserving human existence
- transfusionTransfer of blood intravenously
- plasmaElectrified matter state
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- crossmatchingPre-transfusion blood verification
platelets · apheresis · Rh factor · repository · patients · shelf life · expiration date · storage · Red Cross · testing · refrigerated · collection · medical centers · needles · bags · compatibility · distribution · drives
- Soviet medicinepolyclinics, socialist healthcare, free healthcare, centralized planning, health ministry
- bloodplasma, platelet, platelets, RBC, serum
- hospitalshospital, ER, emergency room, ICU, operating room
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
- hospital facilitiesemergency rooms, ICUs, operating rooms, patient rooms, surgical suites
- Red CrossRed Cross, Clara Barton, disaster relief, volunteer, donation
blood banksoperating theaters
Sterile spaces for operations
trauma units · hospitals · emergency rooms · surgical suites · dialysis centers
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