The Blood Components Group Blog

Welcome to the Blood Components Group! The group aims to promote blood component use particularly in developing nations - where far too much whole blood is being prescribed. This battle has been fought and won in the developed nations, but has to be again fought and won in the developing world! Welcome to the battle and we look forward to your contributions.

We're going to start out at LinkedIn with a discussion on platelet concentrates and the possibilities of using a manual 'apheresis' method instead of the much more expensive automated apheresis that has been touted by some as a solution. Visit the LinkedIn group for the main discussion, and do join the group if you haven't already.

I hope to see many other discussions started by group members as we collectively try to make blood component therapy the norm rather than the exception in the developing world.

Blood Component Group members Please submit any potential articles or documents that you want to share/display here in this blog (in Word) to my personal email samlcarr@gmail.com and I will screen and post them to the blog. I'm right now working alone on this, but promise to get it done as soon as possible.