BLOOD PLASMA FOR WOUNDED
New Treatment In Britain (British official Wireless.) (Received February 3, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, February 2. In a broadcast today the Princess Royal initiated a new campaign for blood donors throughout the country to supplement the scheme that is already operating in London. In its inception tlie appeal calls for 100,000 donors from the east and west ridings of Yorkshire. Iler Highness revealed that during recent heavy raids on Loudon 11 per cent, of the casualties admitted to hospital required transfusions. In some cases the figure was as high, as 35 per cent. She mentioned a new advance which is revolutionizing the treatment of shock caused by wounds —the use of plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood remaining after the red and white corpuscles have been removed. A transfusion for a single patient might require plasma from 10 more donors, she said. It was vitally necessary. therefore, to enrol as many more donors as were now available on the existing panels.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19410204.2.65
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 7
Word Count
167BLOOD PLASMA FOR WOUNDED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in