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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Blood Component"”.
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Preventing Blood Component Administration Errors
… to patients is human error; receiving the wrong blood component or one that is not compatible. A fatality subsequent to a blood transfusion is a devastation one cannot quantify. Blood transfusions are a routinely performed life saving intervention in the inpatient acute care hospital setting. …
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On acoustic particle and cell manipulation in microfluidic systems
… The toolbox is applied to solve various blood component handling tasks, e.g. separation of lipid particles and other contaminating substances from red blood cells and preparation of blood components. The results imply that it is possible to save thousands of people from brain damage …
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Measurement of blood analytes in turbid biological tissue using near-infrared Raman spectroscopy
Concentrations of blood constituents provide diagnostic information in clinical procedures. Among the medical community, there is great interest in developing an optical method of concentration measurements that eliminates reagents required in the current clinical chemistry techniques and is …
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Canine Platelet Concentrates: An In Vitro Study to Effectively Provide a Source of Functional Platelets
… by differential centrifugation of whole blood. In vitro studies utilizing three second-generation platelet storage bags support a previous study and concurs that canine platelet concentrates stored at 20-24°C using continuous agitation are viable for at least 5 days.
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Automated Low-Cost Malaria Detection System in Thin Blood Slide Images Using Mobile Phones
… the world in 2010, is diagnosed using peripheral blood examination. The work undertaken in this research programme aims to develop an automated malaria parasite-detection system, using microscopic-image processing, that can be incorporated onto mobile phones. In this research study, the main …
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A study of FT-IR spectroscopy for the identification and classifcation of haematological malignancies
… and normal and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia blood samples. Multivariate statistical analysis was used to extract important spectral information with the greatest discriminative power. Principal component fed linear discriminant spectral models have been tested with leave one out cross …
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Design and performance of hemostatic biomaterials for managing hemorrhaging
… of the coagulation cascade or (2) interact with blood components to accelerate or otherwise improve coagulation processes. Hemostatic materials designed for internal bleeding can save lives in the battlefield, en route to emergency rooms, and in the operating room. This thesis first focuses on …