whole blood
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Taking a page from battlefield medicine, Jenkins and some other transfusion experts have proposed “walking blood banks,” in which preidentified donors can be called upon during an emergency to donate whole blood.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2025
The Trinity researchers are the first team of scientists to capture the immune response to EBNA-1 using whole blood samples carried out exclusively with equipment that is used in the hospital laboratory day to day.
From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024
During the 12 months of the experiment, one group of firefighters donated plasma every six weeks; a second group donated whole blood every 12 weeks; and the final group did not donate blood at all.
From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024
The hospital began providing whole blood to SFD’s Medic One program four years later and by mid-2021 had expanded blood delivery to medics in Shoreline, Bellevue, Redmond and South King County.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2023
A nurse brought a bag of whole blood.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
