Blood Donations

By: Daisy Valdez and Kateryn coreas

Intro.
* A Blood Drive is an event held on a special day where donors come to give blood voluntary. The main reason for people giving blood consist of their kindness.

Why did we choose this project?

* Kateryn: I choose to do this project because I felt amaze by the interest of people wanting to donate blood in order to have the potential to save lives. *Daisy: The reason for choosing this project was to learn more in detail about the importance of blood and how it can help thousands of people worldwide. *Both: We both choose this project to continue with a tradition that was originally started off by Thuy in 2011.

Research Facts
* Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. * More than 41,000 blood donations are needed every day. * The number of blood donations collected in the U.S. in a year: IS 15.7 million * The average adult has about 10 pints of blood in his body. * Only 7 percent of people in the U.S. have O-negative blood type. O-negative blood type donors are universal donors as their blood can be given to people of all blood types. * The Red Cross provides blood for patients in approximately 2,700 hospitals across the U. S.

Blood Info.
How is blood use? * Plasma is used for burn victims, people with bleeding disorders and even premature children. * Platelets are also used to help prevent bleeding. The people that mostly use platelets are cancer patients. Red blood cells are usually used after a surgery where a lot of blood was lost. How is Blood Storage? * The red blood cells can only be stored up to 42 days before it no longer good to use; platelets can last up to five days while plasma can last up to a year of storage (American Red Cross).

Cont... Statistics

Leaning?
* Advocating

the importance of blood donations could have a positive impact on the lives of thousands of people by increasing the amount of donors and thus, reducing the effects of scarcity in blood supply available for transfusion.

Gulf Coast Blood Regional Centers Mission

* To partner with the community to help save and sustain lives by providing a safe supply of blood. * To meet the needs of the area community, The Blood Center must collect 316,900 units in 2013 and more than 1,000 donations every day.

* Patricia Leblanc was the person representing the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center.

What did we do for this project?

Recruitment
* 105 Donors * 40 Volunteers Talking to Stores *Miguel and Daisy went to different stores on a saturday to try and get snacks.

What did we do for this project?

Activities
* Meetings during school lunch * Car washes on saturday * Pupusa Sell in the mornings during school

Fundraise
* To buy the volunteers shirts * To buy snacks for the donors

Global and local connection

Conclusion of research

Greatest Success
* Our biggest success came from our achieving our initial goal: to better inform our community about the importance of donating blood; as seen by our donor sign up being more successful than the past three years.

Greatest Challenge
* The biggest challenge we encountered was learning to cope with disappointment with our own
expectations; by having far less donors than our anticipated amount actually able to donate, we grew to understand the importance of accounting for the unexpected. One challenge consisted of how it was raining when hosting our car wash.

* We also had many difference along the way, but overall we putted our difference to the side to make a bigger
success at the end.

What did we learn about the world?

What did we learn about ourselves?

How will we use this info to change the future?

We will be using the information we learn in the future, by sharing our experience and

Conclusion
* We had 105 donors the day of the Blood Drive but due to the low iron 23 people
couldn't donate which lower us down to a 82 donors who actually donated. * People with low Iron did not have the opportunity to donate blood because they weren't eating healthy meals. * In order to raise their iron people should eat more type meals such as meat, beans and spinach. And they should avoid drinking too much soda and ice tea.

Cited Words
* Donating Blood." American Red Cross. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013. * "What's Your Blood Type?" What's Your Blood Type? N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013. * "What Is a Blood Transfusion?" - NHLBI, NIH. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Sept. 2013. * Give the Gift of Life: Donate Blood." WHO. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2013. * "Blood Typing: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia." U.S National Library of Medicine. U.S. National Library of Medicine, n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. * "Vaccines, Blood & Biologics." Establishment of Reference Panels for Blood Group Genotyping Tests. N. p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2013. * "Blood Transfusion Risks, Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - MedicineNet." MedicineNet.N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.

Commit For Life

Daisy and I with the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center Nurses.