Safety of Blood Supply

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the general properties of blood and then goes on to compare the abundance and safety of the blood supply in the world and the U.S. The paper concludes by discussing which government agency is responsible for ensuring the safety of the American blood supply.

Outline:
Introduction: What is Blood?
What is the Situation as far as a Clean Blood Supply in the World?
In the United States, the Blood Supply "...is Among the Safest in the World,"
Which Government Agency is Responsible for Ensuring the Safety of the American Blood Supply?

From the Paper:

"Blood is one of the circulating fluids of the body that serves as nutrition, carrying oxygen, nutrients, and metabolic waste. The average adult has about five liters of blood that travels through the heart, arteries, veins, capillaries and cells. The plasma of the blood, according to Gray's Anatomy (pp. 1077-1078) has within it corpuscles, some of which are colored red. There are about four to five million red corpuscles in the average person's blood, and about 12,000 red corpuscles "in each cubic millimeter of blood." In general, the red corpuscles carry oxygen and other nutrients and the white corpuscles fight disease. As a person gets older, and the size of his or her blood vessels change (usually shrinking), the red corpuscles "change their shape...as to adapt themselves to some extent to the size of the vessel," according to Gray's Anatomy."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Center for Disease Control. (2006). How safe is the blood supply in the United States? Retrieved 20 Oct 2006 from http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/print/qa15.htm.
• Gray, Henry. (1977). Gray's Anatomy: The Classic Collector's Edition. New York: Bounty Books.
• McManus, Rich. (2000). Blood Supply Largely Safe, But More Needed. National Institutes Of Health. Retrieved 21 Oct. 2006 from http://www.nih.gov/news/NIH-Record/04_04_2000/story03.htm.
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (2001). Improving Blood Safety and Supply in the U.S. Retrieved 20 Oct. 2006 from http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/01fsbloodsafety.html.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (2004). Blood. Retrieved 21 Oct. 2006 from http://www.fda.gov/Cber/blood.htm.

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