Extraordinary demand for blood leads to critical shortages in South Texas
October 7, 2022
Emergency need for blood has led to a severe shortage of type O blood
Emergency need for blood has led to a severe shortage of type O blood
South Texas Blood & Tissue and blood centers across the world have partnered with Who is Hussain to increase blood donations and awareness through this global, one-day event.
Less than a one-day type O blood supply available for patients across South Texas
Your whole blood donation with us will be separated into three major “components” or parts – red cells, platelets and plasma
If I didn’t receive blood that quickly, my thought is that I wouldn’t have made it, and if I did make it that I would have a lot more health complications than I do.
Dramatic drops in blood donations by younger and first-time donors in South Texas, combined with a rapidly growing population and the current surge of COVID-19 cases, have left the region facing an unprecedented blood shortage.
South Texas Blood & Tissue working with medical community to manage critically low supply
South Texas patients need donors to make up dramatic shortfall in donations during holidays.
In San Antonio and across the nation, emergency room doctors are seeing frighteningly high increases in trauma cases, many from car accidents, which are up dramatically.
In a split-second, Laura was fighting for her life after her family’s car was hit by a speeding truck.
South Texas’ blood supply not yet recovered from winter storm disaster While South Texans have stepped up by the thousands to donate blood since last
The first-of-its-kind civilian program to provide low-titer O-positive whole blood for emergency use, of which the Brothers in Arms program from the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center is a key component, has been highlighted in the latest edition of the journal Military Medicine.
