Show Red Cross Blood Center Report The services of the Intermountain tain Regional Blood Center American American A- A merican Red Cross for the month of May once again the value of the program in terms of service rendered We collected 1207 pints of I blood in May It was used as f follows Whole blood distributed to hospitals for fra frozen plasma 16 18 Fresh frozen plasma is used to help bleeding in hi people whose blood does not clot pro pro- perly The monthly allocations of or gamma globulin to doctors treating treating treat treat- ing patients with a gamma globulin globulin globulin glo glo- bulin deficiency to control persistent persistent persistent per- per infections continues to Increase We are advised by our National Headquarters that the Intermountain Regional Blood Center receives from the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross National Blood program more gamma globulin for this service than any other Center in the United States This in includes includes in- in eludes Centers Centers' like Los Angeles and New York who draw be between between between be- be tween ten and thirteen thousand pints of blood per month compared compared compared com com- pared to our twelve to to- fifteen hundred In May we distributed cc of gamma globulin from our Center This product has a commercial value of approximately approxImately approximately ap ap- proximately 4 per cc Each month some youngsters are happy well children with a saving saving saving sav sav- ing of to their parents as as' as asa a result of the Red Cross Blood program One bottle of blood is is' required to produce 6 cc of gamma globulin Four cc bottles of serum albumin were distributed at a commercial value of about 70 per Six units of fibrinogen fibrinogen fi- fi br were used A little extra exira effort on donor recruitment during the summer months will be needed to help helpmeet helpmeet helpmeet meet hospital needs o 0 |