Patient Care

A 44-year-old needed O+ during ileostomy surgery.
A 20-year-old kidney transplant patient used O+ blood.
A 68-year-old patient needed A+ duing heart bypass surgery.
An eight-year-old needed O+ for total femur removal and custom prothesis surgery.

A one-month-old baby used six units of CMV- O+ blood during heart surgery.
A 49-year-old needed four units of A+ during a liver resection
A two-year-old brain cancer patient used O+ blood during surgery to remove a tumor.
An 81-year-old man used four units of O- during aortic valve replacement surgery.

A one-month-old heart surgery patient used six units of O+ (CMV negative) red blood cells.
A female brain surgery patient needs transfusions of A+ blood products.
In one day, two liver transplant patients and two kidney transplant patients required transfusions of O+ blood. During the same day, a liver transplant patient and and kidney surgery patient needed units of B+ blood.

An infant that just received a bone marrow transplant will require regular transfusions of AB platelets for several weeks. The bone marrow must engraft before their body can begin producing platelets on its own again.
A 61-year-old male received AB+ blood products during treatment for an aneurysm.
A young boy received several A+ (CMV negative, irradiated) units of red blood cells during heart surgery.
A 54-year-old female needed a transfusion of O+ red blood cells during surgery on her spine.

An O+ male patient at the Palo Alto VA recently used 45 units of red blood cells, eight units of platelets and 30 units of cryoprecipitate.
An AB+ infant needed a special platelet match.
An A+ female surgical patient needed multiple units of red blood cells.
Due to high demand, 60 units of O+ red blood cells and 15 units of A+ red blood cells were imported, in addition to our standing order for imported red blood cells. Stanford Blood Center must import 400 red blood cells a month from outside the region to keep up with local demand.

A patient at El Camino Hospital used multiple units of A- platelets and red blood cells.
A patient at Stanford Hospital used multiple units of A+ platelets, red blood cells and fresh frozen plasma.

An infant required several units of AB+ (CMV negative) platelets.
A heart surgery patient at El Camino Hospital used approximately seven units of B- red blood cells.
A patient requiring a plasma exchange needed 50 units of fresh frozen plasma.