Show Regional Blood Cent Center r Reports May Activities The services of the Intermountain tats tain Regional Blood C Center e n t e r. r American Red Cross for the the- month of Ma May demonstrated once one again the toe value of the program In la terms of service rendered We collected 1207 plats pints of blood in May It was used as follows fat fol to- to lows Iowa Whole blood distributed to hos hoe hospitals I For Frozen plasma plasma 16 Fresh frozen plasma Is used to toh h help ID control bleeding in certain p people wl whose se blood does not clot properly The monthly allocations of or gam gamma gamma Ul globulin to doctors treating treating treat treat- ing patients with a gamma Ilan deficiency to control persist persist- I cant ant Infections continues to in InI in In- I crease We Ve are advised ad by our ourI National Headquarters that the I Intermountain mountain Region Blood Center Center Center Cen Cen- ter receives from the Red Iced Cross National Blood Program more gamma globulin for tor this service than any other center in the United UnIted United Uni UnI- ted States This Includes centers like Ilke Los Angeles and New York w who o draw between ten and thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen thousand pints of blood per month month compared to our twelve to toI 1 I fifteen hundred In May we we distributed dJs dJs- of gamma globulin lin from our center This product has a commercial value of apI approximately ap ap- I proximately proxImately 4 U per cc Each month mouth some youngsters are happy well children with a a asaY saYIngs sari saY sar- i sav-ings sav lugs Ings of to their parents asu as asa asa a u result of or the Red Cross Blood I Program One bottle of blood Is required to produce 6 cc of gamma gamma gam- gam ma globulin I Four Four cc cc bottles of serum I albumin were distributed at avalue a aI ai i I commercial value of about 79 nO per Six units of fibrinogen were used i A little extra effort on oa donor I recruitment during the summer I months will be needed to help I meet the hospital needs |