MINNEAPOLIS -- Just days before Quinyana Price rushed to the HCMC emergency room in Minneapolis, Betsy Murray went to Memorial Blood Center in St. Paul to donate two units of red blood. The two ...

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WASHINGTON -- More than 200,000 units of blood had to be thrown away in the weeks after Sept. 11, five times the amount that typically expires before it can be used, congressional auditors report ...

As one of the UK's largest acute trusts, it's a regular customer, using 29,000 units of red blood cells, 4,300 units of plasma and 6,000 units of platelets every year. Subsection.

The blood was weighed to ensure each unit was around 450 milliliters in volume, indicating that it contained enough blood cells to be clinically useful, and held in cold storage.