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Transfuse over a 2-4 hours..
When animal cells are in fresh water for a long time cytolosis occurs and red blood cells explode.
Whole blood needs to be refrigerated and can be stored safely for as long as 35 days, and red blood cells can be refrigerated for as long as 42 days. Plasma has the longest storage time of one year. These products need to be refrigerated to keep them fresh.
It depends on the scenario, PRBC infusers can infuse 1 unit in 5 minutes in trauma settings with acute blood loss while people who have CHF and are at risk volume overload it can take as long as 2-3 or more hours to infuse 1 unit.
20 seconds
a whole summer
By using a centrifuge. I donate platelets, not whole blood and it is done by this method. They spin out what they need. whole blood donations can also be split to help as many as three different patients. You can't derive blood from plasma. You can derive plasma from blood all day long, but you can't derive a whole (blood) from a part (plasma).
Nomally 2 to 3 hours!
Yes, you can. It keeps the flour fresh and free of bugs and weavils.
approximately 7 minutes
It is always fresh
The blood travels from the heart, all through the body and then back to the heart again. This whole process only takes a matter of minutes.