#Blood transfusion

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Dr. Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

Her work uncovered how businesses selling blood led to the spread of HIV in the countryside.

She was at the forefront of AIDS activism in China and traveled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.

A gynecologist by training, she encountered her first AIDS patient in the central province of Henan in 1996.

While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and beyond.

She told the Associated Press in a previous interview that she withstood government pressure and persisted in her work because “everyone has the responsibility to help their own people. As a doctor, that’s my job. So it’s worth it.”

[macgyvermedical]

Hi! Question about blood types. I'm kind of confused about the AB+ blood type. Can there be adverse effects for individuals with this blood type when they receive from other blood types? And why is it considered rare, aside from the fact that only a low percentage of the population has this blood type? Thank you!

People who are AB+ are known as universal recipients. That means, assuming they were typed correctly, they could receive blood from all other types without danger of an acute hemolytic reaction (the type of reaction that occurs when people are given incompatible blood).

Here is more about blood transfusions in general, including what types can give to what types.

Here is more about other types of reactions people can have from blood even if it is typed correctly.

And AB+ is considered rare simply because fewer people have that type than many of the other blood types. About 3-4% of people (about 1 in every 25-33 people) have AB+ blood.

[abybweisse]

Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

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So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

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Blundell's blood transfusion apparatus, 19th century. London, England. Science Museum.

James Blundell (1790-1878) was a British obstetrician. He performed the first recorded successful human-to-human blood transfusion in 1818, using the patient’s husband as the donor.

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Blood & Gold (2023): “Your daughter is the reason you’re still alive.”

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Mad Max Fury Road (2015)

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The unbridled glee I felt upon realizing Jason Todd has O- blood really says something about my "oh nooo I prefer writing fluff and comedy over angst" lies

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You're being so good. So brave. Look how well you take me, baby. Look how I'm filling you up, there's so much of me inside you now. Can you feel its heat, swelling within you? You're getting so flushed, mmm, this makes me dizzy.

- Me, saving his life with a blood transfusion

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Tetikçinin Oğlu 2. Bölüm

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[macgyvermedical]

May I ask what would happen if you transfused blood directly from one person to another, assuming the blood types are compatible? This would be a bit of an emergency situation.

First, read this post.

There would probably be a higher risk of bloodborne illnesses, and it's hard to do a white tile test with 100% accuracy if that's all you've got in the way of testing for compatibility.

But it would be possible as outlined here. (sorry for the FF.Net link, AO3 was not loading, but it is on AO3 too).

[abybweisse]

Ch204, Spoilers (part 2)

Part two of the untranslated ch204 spoilers under the cut.

It's possible that Theo is now preparing to risk his life to get to the bottom of all this and shut down the facility. He seems to have found some new resolve.

He knows they can't get off the orphanage property by the usual means, thanks to all the watchful eyes, barriers, and snipers. But he knows they have to do something.

Maybe if they grab jars of organs to show the other kids, they can get more people to help them revolt against the staff?

Finny flashes back momentarily to when he was found by the earl and Sebastian, as he escaped from a hatch in the ground. Then there's a sound coming from down the hall? Either Snake turns off his flashlight, or it loses power; idk which.

But with that light off, they can see light coming from around an ajar door down the hall. For some reason, they think this might be a way to escape? Snake (one of his snakes) says something, and the kids head to this door.

When they open it, they see Doll dressed in a toga and getting a blood transfusion.

Doll is 100% Canopus.

And I can tell that Doll says "Snake...?"

Well, well, well. What will Snake do now?

And now there's no way for Theo to pretend like he doesn't know what's going on, so how are they all going to handle this?

[honeycombhank]

My mother had her back surgery, it was around 12 hours long. It’s hard to process everything. This has been so hard for my whole family and navigating this sort of thing is sort of unpredictable in so many ways.

She made it! They said it went even better than expected! They said a lot of things and I can’t explain it all now but they were able to remove almost all of the tumor around her spinal nerves and add straps to her lower back where the tumor had eaten away her bones leaving her with out structure and only the muscles really to old everything in place.. ugh

Obviously it’s still a major surgery and she will still be in a lot of pain for awhile but it’s nothing like the pain she was feeling for the past couple of years with her tumor.

It is absolutely amazing what they can do these days for people who are suffering, she had to have at least one blood transfusion and they used someone else’s tibia bones to add to her back for structural integrity.

Wow! I almost can’t believe how grateful I am and thankful for everyone who has been a part of helping my mother.

Thank you to everyone who sent out their prayers and positive thoughts for my mother and my family.

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Problems. Most of the night gofer tryed to comprehend a thing. Finally they did. A lofer at a hospital got off ls and went to check up doing lots of female stuff. Looks like Samson will have to be patient

Would rather have ability to drive some thing. But it takes more than saying. It takes credit and or job.

Ringo star let's call them saw a junkie below the bridge at hollister and 290 just sit there on pile of what ever. They got a sign says no camp, garbage. Soon they be in crowbar town

Believe me this is not easy to do on Here. But some one has been coped up in a room before. Don't madder who visits. There still longing for that special some one . May be the Lord knows